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 absenttotalpositive153146299abnegative57584641cdtotal210730940

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 = 153b = 146c = 57d = 584
Acc = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive34142176abnegative6428434cdtotal40570610

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 = 34b = 142c = 6d = 428
Sp = %
3.Medium
Se67%Sp71%LR+ = ?

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A test has a sensitivity of 67% and a specificity of 71%. Find the positive likelihood ratio LR+. Round to two decimal places.

Se = 67%Sp = 71%
LR+ =
4.Medium
casescontrolsexposed91110abnot exposed109330cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 200 patients with a disease (cases) and 440 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 = 91b = 110c = 109d = 330
OR =
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 78% and specificity 78% comes back negative. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

pre-test 40%Se = 78%Sp = 78%negative
p′ = %
6.Hard
p (%)PPV (%)2%PPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 92%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 2%. Find the positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

Se = 74%Sp = 92%p = 2%
PPV = %

Answer key

  1. 1. Acc = 78.4 %
  2. 2. Sp = 75.1 %
  3. 3. LR+ = 2.31
  4. 4. OR = 2.5
  5. 5. p′ = 15.8 %
  6. 6. PPV = 15.9 %

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