Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive150234384abnegative1009361036cdtotal25011701420

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 = 150b = 234c = 100d = 936
Sp = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive291234525abnegative59546605cdtotal3507801130

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 negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 291b = 234c = 59d = 546
NPV = %
3.Medium
eventno eventtotaltreatment31229260abcontrol58232290cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a randomised trial, 260 patients received a new treatment and 290 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: 31/260control: 58/290
NNT =
4.Medium
casescontrolsexposed14168abnot exposed169202cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 310 patients with a disease (cases) and 270 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 = 141b = 68c = 169d = 202
OR =
5.Hard
pre-test25%post-test?p′LR+

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 25% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 64% and specificity 90% comes back positive. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

pre-test 25%Se = 64%Sp = 90%positive
p′ = %
6.Hard
p (%)PPV (%)3%PPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 95%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 3%. Find the positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

Se = 93%Sp = 95%p = 3%
PPV = %

Answer key

  1. 1. Sp = 80 %
  2. 2. NPV = 90.2 %
  3. 3. NNT = 13
  4. 4. OR = 2.48
  5. 5. p′ = 68.1 %
  6. 6. PPV = 36.5 %

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