Evidence Based Clinical Practice: Critical Appraisal
This guide provides resources for searching and critical appraisal.
Importance of Appraisal
Once you figure out what to look for and where to look, you still have to worry about the quality of the material you find. A poorly done systematic review is not better than a well done randomized controlled trial. On this page, you will find some resources to help you with appraising the material you find.
Guides to Appraising Literature
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JAMAevidence This link opens in a new windowIncludes text of two books (Users' guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice and The rational clinical examination : evidence-based clinical diagnosis), education guides, glossary, calculators, worksheets, question wizards, weekly RSS feed of featured JAMA articles, compiled clinical scenarios, podcasts, and user-level customization features.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3E
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ISBN: 9780071790710Publication Date: 2014-12-30Available from Hardin Library Course Reserves (3rd floor).
More Guides for Critical Appraisal
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Evidence Based Medicine ToolkitFrom the University of Alberta, this resources provides tools for identifying, assessing, and applying relevant evidence to make better health care decisions.
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AFP EBM ToolkitThis resource from American Family Physician provides a variety of EBM resources.
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Interpreting and Understanding Meta-analysis Graphs--A Practical GuideRied, Karin. Australian Family Physician 35, no. 8 (2006): 635-8. This article provides help for appraising forest plots in meta-analyses.
How to Read a Paper Series
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How to Read a Paper: Papers That Summarize Other Papers (Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis)British Medical Journal
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How to Read a Paper: Papers that Report Diagnostic or Screening TestsBritish Medical Journal
CMAJ Evidence-Based Medicine Series
The following series of articles from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, published between 2004 and 2005, include tips for learners of EBM and overcoming challenges for instructors of EBM.
Calculators
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Diagnostic Test CalculatorThis was developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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EBM ToolsA variety of EBM tools from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
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MDCalcThis is a site for medical professionals to help us do calculations and process algorithms and scores. To make patients better. Faster. You can access the full list through the navigation bars, or, preferably, through the search menu.