Critical Appraisal of Health Care Literature
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quality Read the paper carefully and don’t rely on the abstract alone. Around 24%-60% of abstracts in peer reviewed journals have deficiencies. Three common types of inaccuracies are: 1) data inconsistent in abstract and body of the paper, tables, and figures; 2) data or information in the abstract do not appear elsewhere; and 3) conclusions in the abstract not substantiated in the paper itself. [see Ward LG et al. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2004; 38(7-8): 1173-7]. Critical appraisal of an individual journal article describing a piece of research A number of check-lists are available to assist you with the critical appraisal of a journal article describing a piece of research. The questions vary for different types of research study but all boil down to four main issues: What is this paper about? Do I trust it? What did they find? Is it relevant to me? Critical appraisal checklists are available from: CASP(Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) http://www.casp-uk.net/ Centre for Health Evidence http://www.cche.net/ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ Health Evidence Bulletins Wales http://hebw.cf.ac.uk/projectmethod/index.htm National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence http://www.nice.org.uk
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