United State Medical Licensing Examination (Step 2) Set 12

You have performed annual examinations on a young mother for the last 3 years. She and her husband are considering having another child in 5 years, and she would like to restart oral contraceptive pills. You review her medical record and find that she had a normal Pap smear at last year's examination and also the year prior to that. You recommend that her next Pap smear be performed when?

A 30-year-old asymptomatic male presents to your office because his father just had a heart attack. He is concerned that he may have inherited his father's condition because a cholesterol level test done at his work site last year was 220 mg/dL. You review his history and find that he smokes 25 cigarettes a day, eats mostly at fast food restaurants, sits at a desk job, and has no regular moderate intensity physical activities. His blood pressure is 130/85 mmHg and his body mass index (BMI) is 26. Which of the following is the most effective step to successfully help the patient quit smoking?

Jehovah's Witnesses usually refuse to consider a recommended blood transfusion. A 5-yearold child with hemophilia and dangerously low hemoglobin levels needs such a transfusion, but the Jehovah's Witness parents refuse to accept the recommendation. How are principles of autonomy best resolved?

Age-adjusted cancer death rates for men and women reveal an increasing rate for which cancer over the last 20 years?

You have decided to survey the population to establish a health risk profile for the population. Due to budget constraints, you must gather data using a stratified random sample. This approach is correctly described as which of the following?

You are examining the relationship between hypertension and myocardial infarction (MI) in your community. In order to do so, you send a questionnaire to the whole population in your community (1000 persons). All 1000 persons responded. The results obtained from that questionnaire are presented below in table. What is the reported prevalence of hypertension in the population per 1000?

You are examining the relationship between hypertension and myocardial infarction (MI) in your community. In order to do so, you send a questionnaire to the whole population in your community (1000 persons). All 1000 persons responded. The results obtained from that questionnaire are presented below in table. What is the prevalence of MI per 1000 hypertensive persons in the total population?

You are examining the relationship between hypertension and myocardial infarction (MI) in your community. In order to do so, you send a questionnaire to the whole population in your community (1000 persons). All 1000 persons responded. The results obtained from that questionnaire are presented below in table. What is the prevalence of MI per 1000 persons in the community?

You are examining the relationship between hypertension and myocardial infarction (MI) in your community. In order to do so, you send a questionnaire to the whole population in your community (1000 persons). All 1000 persons responded. The results obtained from that questionnaire are presented below in table. You randomly select a sample of 100 questionnaires in order to determine how representative your results would have been compared to the whole population if you had originally only sampled 100 individuals from your community. The results obtained are shown below in table. Which of the following statistical tests could best be used to determine whether there is a significant increase in the history of MI among those persons who have hypertension in comparison with those without hypertension?

You are examining the relationship between hypertension and myocardial infarction (MI) in your community. In order to do so, you send a questionnaire to the whole population in your community (1000 persons). All 1000 persons responded. The results obtained from that questionnaire are presented below in table. If we compare the population sample examined with the whole population that responded to the questionnaire, which of the following statements accurately describes the available information?