TEST BANK FOR PRIMARY CARE ART AND SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING-AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 6TH EDITION- DUNPHY

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A nurse has conducted a literature review in an effort to identify the effect of handwashing on the incidence of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in acute care settings. An article presente... d findings at a level of significance of <0.01. This indicates that A) The control group and the experimental group were more than 99% similar. B) The findings of the study have less than 1% chance of being attributable to chance. C) The effects of the intervention were nearly zero. D) The clinical significance of the findings was less than 1:100. Ans: B Feedback: The level of significance is the level at which the researcher believes that the study results most likely represent a no chance event. A level of significance of <0.01 indicates that there is less than 1% probability that the result is due to chance [Show More]

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