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A set of ten guides in the BMJ.
A downloadable Power Point presentation from the Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility at the University of Birmingham. There are accompanying notes on what the purpose of each slide is and suggestions on how to incorporate them into a presentation on critical appraisal skills.
By Steve Simon (a.k.a. Professor Mean) of the Children's Mercy Hospital.
Publications available for downloading in pdf format.
Article from the CMAJ by Geoffrey R. Norman, PhD and Susan I. Shannon, PhD.
Editorial from the CMAJ by David L. Sackett, MD and Julie Parkes, MD.
ScHARR's practical guide to setting up a critical appraisal workshop and tips on small group teaching for critical appraisal.
A tutorial from ScHARR taking you through the steps required to critically appraise a research study, to decide if if its contents could be used, to improve your practice and help you make informed decisions.
An introduction from the SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course.
in Oxford has a number of tools for developing critical appraisal skills.
including a set of worksheets for critical appraisal of articles on therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, harm, economic analysis, decision analysis and guidelines from the CEBM. The worksheets are downloadable Word files.
for appraising review articles. From the ARIF in Birmingham.
from the University of Alberta contains a number of worksheets providing a structured approach to critical analysis.
An interactive guide from the Centre for Evidence Based Emergency Medicine.
From CEBMH. These forms are checklists that will help you work through a paper. They ask questions that assess the validity and applicability of the research, to allow you to critically appraise the evidence.
The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) discussion list.
The CEBM has compiled a storage and retrieval facility for a collection of CATs (Critically Appraised Topics). CATs are a tactic for helping clinical learners teach themselves how to formulate clinical questions; search for the best evidence; appraise, organise and summarise this evidence; integrate it with clinical expertise; and practice evidence-based medicine.
from the Web based EBM course at Michigan State University.
part of the Epidemiology 'Supercourse'.
by Trisha Greenhalgh in the BMJ.
including a
Worksheet for Using an Article About Assessing Diagnostic Tests from the EBM Toolbox.
Reports on quality standards that should be met by reports of diagnostic procedures, from Bandolier.
from the EBM Toolbox.
by Trisha Greenhalgh in the BMJ.
from Oxford's Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.
by Trisha Greenhalgh in The BMJ.
Guide from Michigan State University's EBM course.
from The Annals of Internal Medicine
from Oxford's Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.
from the EBM Toolbox.
A Health technology Assesment monograph executive summary. The full text can be downloaded.
from Oxford's Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.
by Trisha Greenhalgh in the BMJ.
from Oxford's Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.
in the BMJ.
Discussion of validity of measures.
Working Paper by Rod O'Connor of the National Centre for Health Program Evaluation Melbourne, Australia.
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