Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive7168139abnegative1912921311cdtotal9013601450

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 = 71b = 68c = 19d = 1292
Acc = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive55215270abnegative5645650cdtotal60860920

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 = 55b = 215c = 5d = 645
p = %
3.Medium
casescontrolsexposed12831abnot exposed10239cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 230 patients with a disease (cases) and 70 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 = 128b = 31c = 102d = 39
OR =
4.Medium
Se84%Sp62%LR+ = ?

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A test has a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 62%. Find the positive likelihood ratio LR+. Round to two decimal places.

Se = 84%Sp = 62%
LR+ =
5.Hard
CER26%EER?RRR 18%

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A treatment reduces the risk of an event by 18% in relative terms (RRR = 18%). In a patient group the risk without treatment (CER) is 26% 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 = 18%CER = 26%
NNT =
6.Hard
p (%)NPV (%)30%NPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 98%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 30%. Find the negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

Se = 85%Sp = 98%p = 30%
NPV = %

Answer key

  1. 1. Acc = 94 %
  2. 2. p = 6.5 %
  3. 3. OR = 1.58
  4. 4. LR+ = 2.21
  5. 5. NNT = 22
  6. 6. NPV = 93.8 %

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