Critical Appraisal of Scientific Articles

Critical Appraisal of Scientific Articles

D espite the increasing number of scientific publications, many physicians find themselves with less and less time to read what others have written. Selection, reading, and critical appraisal of publications is, however, necessary to stay up to date in one's field. This is also demanded by the precepts of evidence-based medicine (1, 2). Besides the medical content of a publication, its interpre...

Teaching critical appraisal of articles on psychopharmacology.

OBJECTIVE Psychiatrists and other physicians sometimes read publications superficially, relying excessively on abstracts. The authors addressed this problem by teaching critical appraisal of individual articles. METHOD The authors developed a 23-item appraisal instrument to assess articles in the area of psychopharmacology. The results were collected with an electronic voting system. A discus...

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The Critical Appraisal of Scientific Inquiries with Policy Implications

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