Creation of an online inventory for choosing critical appraisal tools

Critical appraisal of evidence is performed to assess its validity, trustworthiness and usefulness in evidence-based practice. There currently exists a large number variety critical tools (also named risk bias quality assessment instruments), which makes it challenging identify choose an appropriate tool use. We sought develop online inventory inform librarians, practitioners, graduate students, researchers about tools. This was developed from literature review on kept up date using crowdsourcing collaborative web (eSRAP-DIY). To date, 40 have been added the (www.catevaluation.ca), grouped according five general categories: (a) quantitative studies, (b) qualitative (c) mixed methods (d) systematic reviews (e) others. For each tool, summary provided with following information: name, study designs, items, rating scale, reliability, other information (such as existing websites or previous versions), main references. Further studies are needed test improve usability inventory, find solutions reduce monitoring update workload.