Which circumstance indicates that a 5-year-old about to enter grade school should be screened for current illness before receiving her immunizations?
a. She will cry and hurt too much.
b. Her father is chronically ill at home.
c. She has another year before she needs them.
d. Her mother passed immunity to her at birth.
ANS: B
Patients should be screened for current illness because there is an increased risk in using immunologic agents in people with compromised immune status.
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