Your patient is complaining of respiratory distress. In ruling out congestive heart failure, the absence of swollen ankles would be a:

A) false positive finding.
B) false negative finding.
C) pertinent negative finding.
D) true positive finding.


C

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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a. true b. false

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