Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

Free printable Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet: 6 problems from easy to exam level, with an answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF.

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive35221373abnegative18689707cdtotal3707101080

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.

a = 352b = 21c = 18d = 689
PPV = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive28598383abnegative8518621947cdtotal37019602330

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.

a = 285b = 98c = 85d = 1862
Acc = %
3.Medium
casescontrolsexposed11899abnot exposed62131cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 180 patients with a disease (cases) and 230 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 = 118b = 99c = 62d = 131
OR =
4.Medium
eventno eventtotaltreatment54266320abcontrol67253320cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a randomised trial, 320 patients received a new treatment and 320 received the control treatment. The table shows how many in each group had the outcome (an unwanted event such as a stroke). Find the number needed to treat NNT to prevent one event. Round up to a whole number of patients.

treatment: 54/320control: 67/320
NNT =
5.Hard
pre-test40%post-test?p′LR+

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 40% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 81% and specificity 79% comes back positive. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

pre-test 40%Se = 81%Sp = 79%positive
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 80% and specificity 88%. The prevalence of the disease is 25%. How many true-positive results TP are expected?

N = 10 000p = 25%Se = 80%Sp = 88%
TP =

Answer key

  1. 1. PPV = 94.4 %
  2. 2. Acc = 92.1 %
  3. 3. OR = 2.52
  4. 4. NNT = 25
  5. 5. p′ = 72 %
  6. 6. TP = 2000

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