Healthcare researchers in rural regions had long collected extensive data on patient outcomes and treatment effectiveness, meticulously documenting ca...
GMAT Craft and Structure : (Structure) Questions
Healthcare researchers in rural regions had long collected extensive data on patient outcomes and treatment effectiveness, meticulously documenting care patterns across remote clinics and urban medical centers. After analyzing these comprehensive records over several years, the state health department would eventually ______ the findings in their annual policy report, revealing significant disparities in specialist access and treatment delays.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
contradict
publish
suppress
question
Step 1: Decode and Map the Passage
Create Passage Analysis Table
| Text from Passage | Analysis |
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| 'Healthcare researchers in rural regions had long collected extensive data on patient outcomes and treatment effectiveness, meticulously documenting care patterns across remote clinics and urban medical centers.' |
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| 'After analyzing these comprehensive records over several years,' |
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| 'the state health department would eventually' |
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| [MISSING WORD/PHRASE] |
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| 'the findings in their annual policy report,' |
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| 'revealing significant disparities in specialist access and treatment delays.' |
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Provide Passage Architecture & Core Elements
Main Point: Healthcare researchers' extensive data collection and analysis led to findings about healthcare disparities that the state health department would present in their policy report.
Argument Flow: The passage follows a logical research-to-policy sequence. First, researchers gathered comprehensive data over time from both rural and urban healthcare settings. After thorough analysis, the state health department planned to take some action with these findings through their official annual report, ultimately revealing important healthcare access disparities.
Step 2: Interpret the Question Precisely
This is a fill-in-the-blank question asking us to choose the best logical connector. The answer must create the right relationship between what comes before and after the blank.
Step 3: Prethink the Answer
- The context shows researchers collected data, analyzed it over years, and now the state health department will do something with those findings in their official policy report
- Since the findings reveal important disparities, the department would want to make this information available, not hide it
- The word needs to indicate that the department will present or make public these important research findings through their official report
contradict
✗ Incorrect
- 'Contradict' means to deny or oppose the findings
- This makes no sense - why would the health department contradict research findings in their own policy report?
publish
✓ Correct
- 'Publish' means to make information publicly available through official channels
- This perfectly matches the context - the health department would publish the research findings in their annual policy report
suppress
✗ Incorrect
- 'Suppress' means to hide or prevent from being known
- This contradicts the entire purpose - if they wanted to suppress findings, why mention they reveal disparities?
question
✗ Incorrect
- 'Question' means to doubt or challenge the validity of something
- This does not fit the flow - if they were going to question the findings, why would this lead to revealing disparities?