WGU D514 LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Identify the percentage of cases of Ebola by country, as well as the associated
mortality rate - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Determine the percentage of diabetic patients that meet all five wellness criteria
within an accountable care organization - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Evaluate whether remote monitoring could improve the quality of care of all diabetic
patients treated by an accountable care organization - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to forecast the potential revenue for developing a
new drug for a rare disease. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to forecast the increase in demand for a cancer
drug for each of the next ten years. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to determine the number of diabetic patients
whose A1c levels improved following a 90-day course of a new drug. - ✔✔Statistical
modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to identify the percentage of cases where
evidence-based medicine aligns with the outcomes for various cancer treatments. -
✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔An accountable care organization wants to identify the most effective targeted
treatments based on a patient's symptoms. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A clinician wants to know the number of patients whose symptoms improved after
taking a new drug as compared to those who took a placebo. - ✔✔Statistical modeling
, ✔✔A dialysis center wants to compare the patient satisfaction rate between home
dialysis versus in-center dialysis. - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Based on the results of a market study of potential surgery patients, a surgical
services manager hires a new reconstructive surgeon.Which information from the study
informed this hiring decision?
Cost of surgical supplies
Age distribution of patients
Quality measures to monitor
Potential new patient volume - ✔✔Potential new patient volume
✔✔A hospital is evaluating its ability to provide additional advanced dietary care to
hospital inpatients with food allergies. The hospital completed a predictive analysis to
determine the need for this extra service.Which information can be gained from this
study?
Current capacity for dietary care
Estimated cost per qualified patient
A site location for a part-time dietitian
Feasibility of expanding nutrition services - ✔✔Feasibility of expanding nutrition services
✔✔A hospital wants to open a new women's health clinic in a low income area of the
county after it performs an assessment of future demand for women's services.Which
information will this assessment provide to the hospital?
Needs of current patients
Estimated cost per patient
Age distribution of patients
Volume of potential patients - ✔✔Volume of potential patients
✔✔Estimating relationship among variables
"related to" "associated with" "linked" - ✔✔Regression Analysis
Combination of age, sex, wt, family hx is linked to DM
✔✔Values of observed data are expressed as functions of a number of possible causes
in order to find which are most important - ✔✔Factor Analysis
✔✔Quantitative test that compares mean score of a sample to known mean - ✔✔T test
✔✔Quantitative, group of similar subjects divided into 2 groups- intervention x and y -
✔✔Two-Sample T test
✔✔Looks for differences withing same group at different points in time - ✔✔Paired T
Test
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Identify the percentage of cases of Ebola by country, as well as the associated
mortality rate - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Determine the percentage of diabetic patients that meet all five wellness criteria
within an accountable care organization - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Evaluate whether remote monitoring could improve the quality of care of all diabetic
patients treated by an accountable care organization - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to forecast the potential revenue for developing a
new drug for a rare disease. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to forecast the increase in demand for a cancer
drug for each of the next ten years. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to determine the number of diabetic patients
whose A1c levels improved following a 90-day course of a new drug. - ✔✔Statistical
modeling
✔✔A pharmaceutical company wants to identify the percentage of cases where
evidence-based medicine aligns with the outcomes for various cancer treatments. -
✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔An accountable care organization wants to identify the most effective targeted
treatments based on a patient's symptoms. - ✔✔Predictive modeling
✔✔A clinician wants to know the number of patients whose symptoms improved after
taking a new drug as compared to those who took a placebo. - ✔✔Statistical modeling
, ✔✔A dialysis center wants to compare the patient satisfaction rate between home
dialysis versus in-center dialysis. - ✔✔Statistical modeling
✔✔Based on the results of a market study of potential surgery patients, a surgical
services manager hires a new reconstructive surgeon.Which information from the study
informed this hiring decision?
Cost of surgical supplies
Age distribution of patients
Quality measures to monitor
Potential new patient volume - ✔✔Potential new patient volume
✔✔A hospital is evaluating its ability to provide additional advanced dietary care to
hospital inpatients with food allergies. The hospital completed a predictive analysis to
determine the need for this extra service.Which information can be gained from this
study?
Current capacity for dietary care
Estimated cost per qualified patient
A site location for a part-time dietitian
Feasibility of expanding nutrition services - ✔✔Feasibility of expanding nutrition services
✔✔A hospital wants to open a new women's health clinic in a low income area of the
county after it performs an assessment of future demand for women's services.Which
information will this assessment provide to the hospital?
Needs of current patients
Estimated cost per patient
Age distribution of patients
Volume of potential patients - ✔✔Volume of potential patients
✔✔Estimating relationship among variables
"related to" "associated with" "linked" - ✔✔Regression Analysis
Combination of age, sex, wt, family hx is linked to DM
✔✔Values of observed data are expressed as functions of a number of possible causes
in order to find which are most important - ✔✔Factor Analysis
✔✔Quantitative test that compares mean score of a sample to known mean - ✔✔T test
✔✔Quantitative, group of similar subjects divided into 2 groups- intervention x and y -
✔✔Two-Sample T test
✔✔Looks for differences withing same group at different points in time - ✔✔Paired T
Test
