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MCQ September 2022
| 1. | Regarding ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in primary care, which of the followings is FALSE? |
| A. | ABPM should not be ordered in patients with normal clinic blood pressure (BP). |
| B. | ABPM would be considered as invalid if the overall successful measurements are less than 70% of all readings. |
| C. | ABPM is useful to establish the diagnosis of hypertension especially if patients do not have out of office BP measurements. |
| D. | ABPM can be used to monitor BP control among hypertensive patients. |
| E. | ABPM an provide better prognostic information about cardiovascular disease than office BP measurements. |
Answer: A.
| 2. | Which of the following conditions would prompt the use of ABPM rather than home blood pressure monitoring to confirm white-coat effect? |
| A. | Self-reporting bias |
| B. | Patients with dementia |
| C. | Suspected nocturnal hypertension |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
Answer: D.
| 3. | What is the prevalence of complicated grief after major bereavement? |
| A. | 1-4% |
| B. | 5-9% |
| C. | 10-14% |
| D. | 15-19% |
| E. | 20-24% |
Answer: B.
| 4. | Which of the following is NOT a technique of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for complicated grief? |
| A. | Communication analysis |
| B. | Role-playing |
| C. | Dream analysis |
| D. | Facilitate expression of emotions |
| E. | To reconstruct relationship with the deceased |
Answer: C.
| 5. | What are the differential diagnoses of sterile pyuria? |
| A. | Recently treated urinary tract infection |
| B. | Sexually transmitted infection |
| C. | Urinary tract infections by atypical organism |
| D. | Urinary stones |
| E. | All of the above |
Answer: E.
| 6. | What investigation can be performed to diagnose urinary tuberculosis in primary care? |
| A. | Mid-stream urine culture |
| B. | Early morning urine test for mycobacterial culture and acid-fast bacilli smear |
| C. | Kidney, ureter, and bladder (KUB) X-ray |
| D. | Sputum test for mycobacterial culture and acid-fast bacilli smear |
| E. | Chest X-ray |
Answer: B.
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