Which of the following best defines a comorbidity?
a. The actual death of the patient, or increased potential for death due to the patient's presenting problem, a drastic worsening of the presenting problem, or associated disease process
b. A state of disease, illness, or ill health
c. A disease, illness, or ill health that is separate from the presenting problem but that occurs at the same time as the presenting problem
d. A pathological development that is not an inherent part of the presenting problem but that occurs in a patient during the management of the patient's presenting problem
c) A disease, illness, or ill health that is separate from the presenting problem but that occurs at the same time as the presenting problem
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a. The increasing cost of antibiotics b. Their ineffectiveness against an increasing number of bacteria c. Growing numbers of patients who refuse to take them d. The high cost of producing them
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