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            MCQ December 2022
| 1.  | The mail to quit programme in the smoking cessation service is: | 
| A.  | Effective | 
| B.  | Feasible | 
| C.  | Convenient to smokers | 
| D.  | Well received by service users | 
| E.  | All of the above | 
Answer: E. 
| 2.  | When comparing the quit rate of smoking in the “mail to quit programme” with conventional methods of smoking cessation in this study, the quit rate of the former was: | 
| A.  | Slightly higher | 
| B.  | Lower | 
| C.  | 42% | 
| D.  | Very much higher | 
| E.  | 45% | 
Answer: B. 
| 3.  | In the study titled “A clinical audit on secondary preventive care in patients with ischemic heart disease in a public primary care clinic in Hong Kong”, which of the following is the target blood pressure for patients with ischemic heart disease? | 
| A.  | 120/70mmHg | 
| B.  | 130/80mmHg | 
| C.  | 135/85mmHg | 
| D.  | 140/90mmHg | 
| E.  | 150/90mmHg | 
Answer: B. 
| 4.  | What is the target low density cholesterol level adopted in the above-mentioned study? | 
| A.  | < 1.4mmol/L | 
| B.  | < 1.8mmol/L | 
| C.  | < 2.0mmol/L | 
| D.  | < 2.6mmol/L | 
| E.  | < 3.4mmol/L | 
Answer: B. 
| 5.  | What is the prevalence of beta-lactam “allergy” labels among the general Hong Kong population? | 
| A.  | 80% | 
| B.  | 20% | 
| C.  | 2% | 
| D.  | 0.2% | 
| E.  | 0.02% | 
Answer: C. 
| 6.  | After evaluation, what is the approximate proportion of beta-lactam allergy labels which are found to be INCORRECT? i.e. proportion of patients with allergy labels found able to tolerate beta-lactams without problems. | 
| A.  | 86% | 
| B.  | 50% | 
| C.  | 30% | 
| D.  | 10% | 
| E.  | 2% | 
Answer: A. 
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