A pediatrician at the Community Physicians Clinic told a mother that her six-month old child is in the 54th percentile in weight. This means that her child’s weight is greater than or equal to 54 percent of all six-month old children. True or false?
218
Use the information below to find your percentile. Your score is 86.
Test Scores out of 100 Points
95
97
99
74
84
91
65
94
54
89
35
88
86
56
77
96
76
27
100
75
92
93
Using the information below for University Hospital, answer the following questions.
University Hospital
C-sections by Physician
January–December 20XX
Physician Number
Number of C-sections
101
3
202
7
303
27
305
33
401
5
407
8
508
1
518
12
629
9
710
2
911
4
912
18
933
22
944
15
975
20
Which percentile is Dr. 975?
Find the 60th percentile
219
Dr. Sullivan, a new physician at Community Physician’s Clinic has acquired twenty new patients in the first month of his practice. He wants to offer free diet counseling to be given by a new dietician at the clinic to all his new patients whose weight is over the 85th percentile. He asks the health information management (HIM) professional to determine who these patients would be.
New Patients seen by Dr. Sullivan
October 20XX
Patient Number
Weight
892345
196
877654
207
764309
155
753254
185
912356
186
455656
192
232323
147
567815
209
875408
242
543465
307
872345
245
925627
232
647382
222
980753
150
765497
189
743952
195
867342
180
142849
175
745261
172
654811
165
Using the information above, determine the patients who would be included for the free diet counseling.
Dr. Sullivan determines that weight is not low enough to include patients he believes should be included for free counseling and asks you to determine the percentile for 172 lbs., which he believes is a more realistic weight to have to begin counseling.
220
Dr. Davis, a new endocrinologist at the Community Physician’s Clinic, acquired 20 new diabetic patients during his first month of practice. Their A1C results are listed below.
New patients seen by Dr. Davis
October 20XX
Patient Number
A1C result
893245
5.7
879554
5.8
766509
6.2
752354
6.1
918756
6.8
457656
11.5
235423
10.7
561115
6.7
872208
6.8
544565
9.2
876745
8.4
929827
7.2
648382
6.9
980053
5.5
768997
5.7
741452
6.7
861942
10.4
146349
8.5
749961
9.6
656511
6.0
Dr. Davis would like to offer a weight-loss clinic to the patients who are above the 40th percentile of the results. Which patients would that be? List by patient number.
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