Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive21636252abnegative14411641308cdtotal36012001560

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 negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 216b = 36c = 144d = 1164
NPV = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive146609755abnegative2411311155cdtotal17017401910

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 specificity Sp as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 146b = 609c = 24d = 1131
Sp = %
3.Medium
casescontrolsexposed82171abnot exposed168139cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 250 patients with a disease (cases) and 310 people without it (controls). The table shows how many in each group were exposed to a risk factor. Find the odds ratio OR for the exposure. Round to two decimal places.

a = 82b = 171c = 168d = 139
OR =
4.Medium
peopleyears14404270531604new cases119

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a cohort, groups of people were followed for different lengths of time (see the table: number of people and years of follow-up for each). During follow-up, 119 new cases occurred. Find the incidence rate IR per 1000 person-years. Round to one decimal place.

440 × 4 years70 × 5 years160 × 4 years119 new cases
IR = per 1000 person-years
5.Hard
pre-test60%post-test?p′LR−

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 60% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 89% and specificity 90% comes back negative. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

pre-test 60%Se = 89%Sp = 90%negative
p′ = %
6.Hard
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive?negativetotal10 000

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). 10 000 people are screened with a test of sensitivity 96% and specificity 78%. The prevalence of the disease is 12%. How many true-positive results TP are expected?

N = 10 000p = 12%Se = 96%Sp = 78%
TP =

Answer key

  1. 1. NPV = 89 %
  2. 2. Sp = 65 %
  3. 3. OR = 0.4
  4. 4. IR = 43.3 per 1000 person-years
  5. 5. p′ = 15.5 %
  6. 6. TP = 1152

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