Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive19763260abnegative9315171610cdtotal29015801870

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 prevalence in the study p as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 197b = 63c = 93d = 1517
p = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive178442620abnegative7212581330cdtotal25017001950

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 sensitivity Se as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 178b = 442c = 72d = 1258
Se = %
3.Medium
peopleyears114032340431701.5new cases100

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, 100 new cases occurred. Find the incidence rate IR per 1000 person-years. Round to one decimal place.

140 × 3 years340 × 4 years170 × 1.5 years100 new cases
IR = per 1000 person-years
4.Medium
peopleyears1602.524101new cases28

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, 28 new cases occurred. Find the incidence rate IR per 1000 person-years. Round to one decimal place.

60 × 2.5 years410 × 1 year28 new cases
IR = per 1000 person-years
5.Hard
p (%)PPV (%)2%PPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 88%. 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 = 90%Sp = 88%p = 2%
PPV = %
6.Hard
CER20%EER?RRR 50%

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A treatment reduces the risk of an event by 50% in relative terms (RRR = 50%). In a patient group the risk without treatment (CER) is 20% over five years. Find the number needed to treat NNT for five years to prevent one event. Round up to a whole number of patients.

RRR = 50%CER = 20%
NNT =

Answer key

  1. 1. p = 15.5 %
  2. 2. Se = 71.2 %
  3. 3. IR = 49.1 per 1000 person-years
  4. 4. IR = 50 per 1000 person-years
  5. 5. PPV = 13.3 %
  6. 6. NNT = 10

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