STATISTICS EXPERTS

CORRECT ANSWERS ONLY

PART 1

is the equivalent of the correlation between X and Y in a multiple regression with only one predictor.

The regression analysis is ZY = ZX in its standardized form. What does the value of be in this equation?

is the inverse of the relationship between X and Y.

PART 2

Question:

nur 334 Healthcare-associated infections(HAIs) happen when patients are being treated in a healthcare facility. Every day, about one in 25 patients in hospitals acquire an HAI such as central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and surgical site infections. The CDC and its partners have developed tools and resources to prevent HAIs.

1 Which haematogenous infections (bacterial, fungal and protozoal) can give rise to positive findings in the urine? What are the appropriate microbiological investigations for each infection?

2 Could you please explain the term 'zoonosis'.

3 What are soil transmitters?

4 Please explain the difference between bacteraemia and septicaemia. Can the presence of toxins, fungi or viruses in the blood also be called septicaemia?

5 I want to know about the safety of antibiotics used in pregnancy in different trimesters.

6 What are the uses and the side-effects of the antibiotic lincomycin?

7 I have a question that keeps troubling me. Is there any drug taken orally that prevents penicillin hypersensitivity reactions?

8 Is there any replacement intravenous antibiotic for those patients who have hypersensitivity to penicillin?

9 Is it correct to perform an intradermal skin sensitivity test before administering penicillin or a cephalosporin?

10 Why are antibiotics not allowed in the treatment of rotaviruses?