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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Reducing Medical Errors

Question 1 • Introduction to Health Science - EL3601 B

Which of the following people has one or more risk factors for hepatitis C?

Answer
A
a forty-year-old alcoholic woman with stomach pain
B
an infant born to a mother who does not have hepatitis C
C
a fifty-five-year-old male who received a blood transfusion in 1985
D
a twenty-five-year-old nurse who uses gloves each time she works with patients

Explanation

Hepatitis C can be transmitted through contaminated blood. Blood donations were not routinely screened for hepatitis C until 1992, so a person who received a transfusion in 1985 had a risk of exposure. The other choices do not describe a comparable risk factor: hepatitis C is not inherited from a mother who does not have it, and using gloves reduces a nurse’s risk of blood exposure.

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