Choose an Illness
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Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.
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This discussion supports the following objective:
- Analyze clinical data to identify trends and present data for healthcare decision making.
- Analyze and present data for healthcare decision making (such as demonstrating quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare).
- Identify risk factors in disease to support evidence-based medicine
You are the community relations officer for a hospital. You are responsible for preparing public statements any time there is a significant public health risk. This includes occurrences of viral and bacterial illnesses.
For your discussion,
- Choose an illness (viral or bacterial) as the focus of your post.
- If you were to prepare a public statement on the illness, which of the following terms would you use, and why? Briefly explain the context in which you would use each term. Note: You are not creating a formal statement, you are discussing how terminology would be used in one.
- Prevalence
- Incidence
- Morbidity
- Mortality
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