What is the rate of copd among your patients who smoke

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Case: You are a nurse practitioner working in an ambulatory clinic in Illinois with a case load of 350 patients. You notice that a large proportion (179 patients) have COPD, and you wonder if it is related to smoking. You create the following 2 x 2 table to explore the relationship between smoking and COPD:

	smokers	nonsmokers	total
With COPD	82	97	179
Without COPD	18	153	171
	100	250	350

Question 1. What is the rate of COPD among your patients who smoke?

Question 2. What is the relative risk of COPD among the smokers and nonsmokers?

Question 3. What is the risk for COPD that can be attributed to smoking?

Question 4. What are the odds of getting COPD if a patient is a smoker?

Question 5. You learn that the rate of COPD among nonsmokers in the state of Illinois is 0.26. Why does that statistic cause you concern? What is your next step?

Question 6. What other statistics would help you determine how big the problem is among your patients?

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