What role have psychotropic medications played in the rise in expenditures for community-based services over the years?


They reduced the symptoms of psychosis patients, in an effort to restore patients who responded positively to these medications back into the community. There were more court decisions to place individuals in outpatient programs with stipulations that the patient would continue to take the medication and maintain psychiatric appointments, thereby reducing the need for inpatient hospitalization.

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The dosage and route for arformoterol is

a. 5 to 8 mg PO. b. 2.5 mg tid via nebulization. c. 15 ?g bid via nebulization. d. 90 ?g tid via MDI.

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Which of the following personnel monitoring devices can be used to provide an immediate exposure readout for a radiation worker?

1. Personnel digital ionization dosimeter 2. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter without an in-house reader 3. Pocket ionization chamber 4. Thermoluminesence dosimeter a. 1 and 2 only b. 1 and 3 only c. 1 and 4 only d. 2 and 4 only

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A left lateral chest projection demonstrates the gastric air bubble directly beneath the superior hemidiaphragm. Identify the superior lung

a. Left b. Right

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Water flows from areas of weak salt solution to areas of strong solution in an effort to dilute the salt solution in a process called ____________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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