Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

Free printable Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet: 6 problems from easy to exam level, with an answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF.

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive169227396abnegative51803854cdtotal22010301250

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 = 169b = 227c = 51d = 803
NPV = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive108522630abnegative42888930cdtotal15014101560

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 sensitivity Se as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

a = 108b = 522c = 42d = 888
Se = %
3.Medium
casescontrolsexposed22314abnot exposed58326cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 80 patients with a disease (cases) and 640 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 = 22b = 314c = 58d = 326
OR =
4.Medium
casescontrolsexposed16289abnot exposed64471cd

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 80 patients with a disease (cases) and 760 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 = 16b = 289c = 64d = 471
OR =
5.Hard
control10%treatment?

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). Without a drug, 10% of patients have a certain side effect during a year. The drug raises this risk with a relative risk of RR = 1.52. Find the number needed to harm NNH: how many patients must take the drug for a year for one extra patient to have the side effect? Round up to a whole number of patients.

control 10%RR = 1.52
NNH =
6.Hard
CER33%EER?RRR 25%

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A treatment reduces the risk of an event by 25% in relative terms (RRR = 25%). In a patient group the risk without treatment (CER) is 33% 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 = 25%CER = 33%
NNT =

Answer key

  1. 1. NPV = 94 %
  2. 2. Se = 72 %
  3. 3. OR = 0.39
  4. 4. OR = 0.41
  5. 5. NNH = 20
  6. 6. NNT = 13

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