While monitoring patients, signals, or values are susceptible to variability due to which of the following?
1. Artifacts
2. Factitious events
3. Instrument drift
4. Seasonal variation
A)1 and 3 only
B)1, 2, and 3 only
C)3 and 4 only
D)2, 3, and 4 only

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Artifacts, factitious events, and instrument drift can all introduce variability into the monitoring of patients or signals. Artifacts are external disturbances or errors in data collection, factitious events are false or artificially created phenomena, and instrument drift refers to the gradual deviation of an instrument's accuracy over time. Seasonal variation is not typically related to the direct monitoring of patients or signals in the same way and does not introduce variability in the same context as the other options.

While Monitoring Patients, Signals, or Values Are Susceptible to Variability