You are interested in studying the discharge time for surgical patients on your service in the past three months. You determine that this data is available for all surgical patients on your service in the past three months utilizing a basic electronic medical record search. Your budget supports this work so you decide to collect data on all the patients involved. Your study includes:
A) The population
B) The sample
C) The interval data
D) All patients admitted in the past year.

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Since you are collecting data on all surgical patients on your service in the past three months, your study includes the entire population of interest, not just a sample.

You Are Interested in Studying the Discharge Time for Surgical