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Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) provides many tools to help you read and appraise evidence. This tool will help you make sense of the information provided in any systematic review so you can conclude if that review is valid and reliable.
Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, value and relevance in a particular context (Amanda Burls 2009).
CASPin provide many tools to help you systematically read evidence and this specific tool will help you make sense of any case control study and assess its validity in a quick and easy way.
A checklist to help you systematically appraise and understand diagnostic test studies.
This resource is a tutorial, providing a thorough introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). It describes in detail how to formulate specific questions when searching for evidence on a problem, how to find this evidence using online databases, and how to evaluate and appraise the evidence found. It also outlines the economic modelling and cost-assessments behind healthcare choices.
CASP have created a from to help make sense of the information given in Cohort Studies.
12 questions to help you make sense of economic evaluations.
Download this form if you would like help reading and making sense of qualitative research.
List of suggested, helpful resources from the team at CASP. Including: summaries, critical appraisals, meta-analyses, guidelines & databases.
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