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.
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 positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
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 likelihood ratio LR−. Round to two decimal places.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 140 patients with a disease (cases) and 600 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 90% and specificity 75% 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 patient has a pre-test probability of 15% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 84% and specificity 80% comes back negative. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Answer key
- 1. Se = 74.2 %
- 2. PPV = 92.7 %
- 3. LR− = 0.29
- 4. OR = 0.51
- 5. p′ = 54.5 %
- 6. p′ = 3.4 %
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