{"id":14,"date":"2020-09-08T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:50:12","slug":"critical-appraisal-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/critical-appraisal\/critical-appraisal-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Appraisal Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">General resources<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebm.med.ualberta.ca\/\">Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit<\/a>: hosted by the University of Alberta, this is an online box of handy tools to help you find, appraise, and apply in practice, evidence-based research<\/li>\n<li>How to read a paper &#8211; a set of guides from the BMJ. General topics include:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7102\/243\">Getting your bearings (deciding what a paper is about)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7103\/305\">Assessing the methodological quality of published papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7104\/364\">Statistics for the non-statistician<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7105\/422\">Statistics for the non-statistician II<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cebm.net\/index.aspx?o=1025\">Levels of Evidence<\/a>: ranking system for various study designs in order of evidence-based merit: systematic reviews\/meta-analyses and well conducted randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are usually seen as the best form of evidence, with research based on the outcome of a case series placed somewhere near the bottom<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk\/\">Netting the Evidence<\/a>: search for the keyword &#8220;appraisal&#8221; to find a quality assessed list of appraisal resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHide_break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">Critically appraising qualitative research<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7110\/740\">How to read a paper: papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)<\/a>: more detailed background on appraising qualitative research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"showHide_break\"><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"showHide showHide-minimal showOpen\">\n<h2 class=\"showHideTitle activeShowHideTitle open\">Critically appraising quantitative health research<\/h2>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<h4 align=\"left\">Quality of Life (QOL) measures<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodoconnorassoc.com\/issues_in_the_measurement_of_qua.htm\">Issues in the measurement of health-related Quality of Life<\/a>: some tips and background on appraising papers which measure quality of life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Economic evaluations (cost of health care interventions)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7108\/596\">How to read a paper: papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)<\/a>: BMJ article explaining how to appraise a paper that evaluates the economic cost of a healthcare intervention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Controlled trials<\/h4>\n<p>This includes clinical trials, randomised controlled trials, crossover trials, and blinded trial designs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7106\/480\">How to read a paper: papers that report drug trials<\/a>: BMJ article explaining how to appraise a report of trial results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Meta-analyses and systematic reviews<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7109\/672\">How to read a paper: papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)<\/a>: BMJ article explaining how to appraise a review or meta-analysis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebm-tools.knowledgetranslation.net\/themes\/blue\/files\/uploads\/sr-worksheet.doc\">Systematic Review (of Therapy) Worksheet (.doc)<\/a>: produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Accuracy of diagnostic tests<\/h4>\n<p>These include things like the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, or DSM IV.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebm-tools.knowledgetranslation.net\/themes\/blue\/files\/uploads\/Diag-worksheet.doc\">Diagnostic Worksheet (.doc)<\/a>: produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Toronto<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/315\/7107\/540\">How to read a paper: papers that report diagnostic or screening tests<\/a>: BMJ article explaining how to appraise a paper about a diagnostic test<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Therapy<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebm-tools.knowledgetranslation.net\/themes\/blue\/files\/uploads\/Ther-worksheet.doc\">Therapy Worksheet (.doc)<\/a>: produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Prognosis (long term outcome)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebm-tools.knowledgetranslation.net\/themes\/blue\/files\/uploads\/Prog-worksheet.doc\">Prognosis Worksheet (.doc)<\/a>: produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Aetiology (risk of harm)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebm-tools.knowledgetranslation.net\/themes\/blue\/files\/uploads\/Harm-worksheet.doc\">Harm Worksheet (.doc)<\/a>: produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Clinical guidelines<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agreecollaboration.org\/\">AGREE Collaboration<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; project which created an appraisal tool for assessing clinical guidelines: see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agreecollaboration.org\/instrument\/\">AGREE Instrument<\/a>\u00a0which outlines the framework for developing, reporting, and assessing clinical guidelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General resources Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit: hosted by the University of Alberta, this is an online box of handy tools to help you find, appraise, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/critical-appraisal\/critical-appraisal-resources\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56681,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}