Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A new test was compared with the reference standard in a study (see the 2 × 2 table). Find the positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A new test was compared with the reference standard in a study (see the 2 × 2 table). Find the accuracy Acc as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A test has a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 69%. Find the positive likelihood ratio LR+. Round to two decimal places.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A new test was compared with the reference standard in a study (see the 2 × 2 table). Find the positive likelihood ratio LR+. Round to two decimal places.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 97% and a specificity of 86%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 0.5%. Find the positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 30% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 93% and specificity 73% comes back positive. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Answer key
- 1. PPV = 25 %
- 2. Acc = 84.6 %
- 3. LR+ = 2.74
- 4. LR+ = 2.29
- 5. PPV = 3.4 %
- 6. p′ = 59.6 %
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