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.
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 negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer key
- 1. Sp = 80 %
- 2. NPV = 90.2 %
- 3. NNT = 13
- 4. OR = 2.48
- 5. p′ = 68.1 %
- 6. PPV = 36.5 %
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