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Information and Ideas practice question
A pharmacist claims that the new packaging for a medicine, with large print and a colour-coded lid, has reduced the number of patients taking the wrong dose.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. Reports of wrong doses of the medicine fell from 40 a month to 8 a month after the new packaging was introduced, with no change in how many patients took it.Correct
- B. The new packaging costs more to produce.
- C. Patients say the new packaging looks attractive.
- D. The medicine is prescribed to older patients.
Answer: A. Reports of wrong doses of the medicine fell from 40 a month to 8 a month after the new packaging was introduced, with no change in how many patients took it.
Fewer wrong doses, same number of patients.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The new packaging costs more to produce.
- Cost is not dosing.
- C. Patients say the new packaging looks attractive.
- Looks are not dosing.
- D. The medicine is prescribed to older patients.
- Who takes it is not dosing.
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