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.
Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer key
- 1. Acc = 78.9 %
- 2. p = 21 %
- 3. RR = 2.49
- 4. NNT = 38
- 5. p′ = 43.7 %
- 6. NPV = 95.4 %
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