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How can you tell whether a claimed intervention is truly effective? Critical appraisal skills enable you to methodically assess the validity, reliability and relevance of published studies.
Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) provides eight appraisal checklists for a variety of study types.
A suite of 13 of critical appraisal checklists from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
A list of critical appraisal tools from the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (ICAHE). Tools include reporting standards, outcome measures and assessing treatment choices.
Clear and concise 12 question tool for evaluating survey research. Centre for Evidence-Based Management (CEBM) also provides critical appraisal worksheets.
A Canadian resource providing information on the steps involved in evidence-informed public health. NCCMT provides e-learning modules for critical appraisal of guidelines, systematic reviews, qualitative studies, intervention studies and other study types.
Information from the University of Melbourne on CASP, AMSTAR, PRISMA and STROBE.