Infections Due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Strategies for Managed Care Organizations to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
Post Test

A score of 70% must be achieved to receive continuing education credits.
 
1. There are four management strategies for RSV.
   True
   False
2. Each year, an estimated _____ infants in the United States are hospitalized with severe RSV infections, the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the U.S.
 a. 100,000
 b. 125,000
 c. 150,000
 d. 175,000
3. Who is at high risk for severe disease and hospitalization due to RSV?
 a. Children born prematurely
b. Chronic lung disease
 c. Congenital
d. All of the above
4. RSV is the most common respiratory infection in infancy or childhood.
   True
   False
5. Numax is the only monoclonal antibody approved by the FDA to help prevent an infectious disease.
   True
   False
6. Synagis is an investigational humanized Mab in phase 3 development to evaluate its potential to prevent serious lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in pediatric patients at high risk of RSV disease.
   True
   False
7 ____ met its primary enpoint of non-inferiority by reducing the incidence of hospitalizations caused by RSV in infants at high risk for serious RSV disease by 26% when compared to _____.
 a. Numax, Synagis
 b. Synagis, Numax
 c. Palavizumab, Motavizumab
 d. None of the above

 

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