Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive46608654abnegative2413521376cdtotal7019602030

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 = 46b = 608c = 24d = 1352
Acc = %
2.Easy
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive87328415abnegative13932945cdtotal10012601360

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 = 87b = 328c = 13d = 932
p = %
3.Medium
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive197145342abnegative73435508cdtotal270580850

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.

a = 197b = 145c = 73d = 435
LR− =
4.Medium
peopleyears16002.521302new cases54

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). In a cohort, groups of people were followed for different lengths of time (see the table: number of people and years of follow-up for each). During follow-up, 54 new cases occurred. Find the incidence rate IR per 1000 person-years. Round to one decimal place.

600 × 2.5 years130 × 2 years54 new cases
IR = per 1000 person-years
5.Hard
p (%)NPV (%)0.5%NPV = ?100

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 95%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 0.5%. Find the negative predictive value NPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.

Se = 90%Sp = 95%p = 0.5%
NPV = %
6.Hard
testdisease presentdisease absenttotalpositive?negativetotal10 000

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). 10 000 people are screened with a test of sensitivity 93% and specificity 87%. The prevalence of the disease is 1%. How many true-positive results TP are expected?

N = 10 000p = 1%Se = 93%Sp = 87%
TP =

Answer key

  1. 1. Acc = 68.9 %
  2. 2. p = 7.4 %
  3. 3. LR− = 0.36
  4. 4. IR = 30.7 per 1000 person-years
  5. 5. NPV = 99.9 %
  6. 6. TP = 93

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