Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive145390535abnegative6515601625cdtotal21019502160

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 = 145b = 390c = 65d = 1560
Acc = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive33288420abnegative5813821440cdtotal39014701860

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 = 332b = 88c = 58d = 1382
p = %
3.Medium
eventno eventtotaltreatment56080640abcontrol172318490cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a randomised trial, 640 patients received a new treatment and 490 received the control treatment. The table shows how many in each group had a side effect. Find the relative risk RR of the event with treatment. Round to two decimal places.

treatment: 560/640control: 172/490
RR =
4.Medium
eventno eventtotaltreatment84726810abcontrol121809930cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a randomised trial, 810 patients received a new treatment and 930 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: 84/810control: 121/930
NNT =
5.Hard
pre-test15%post-test?p′LR+

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 15% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 66% and specificity 85% comes back positive. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

pre-test 15%Se = 66%Sp = 85%positive
p′ = %
6.Hard
p (%)NPV (%)15%NPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 95%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 15%. Find the negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

Se = 74%Sp = 95%p = 15%
NPV = %

Answer key

  1. 1. Acc = 78.9 %
  2. 2. p = 21 %
  3. 3. RR = 2.49
  4. 4. NNT = 38
  5. 5. p′ = 43.7 %
  6. 6. NPV = 95.4 %

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