OBJECTIVE To identify a critical appraisal tool for clinical practice guidelines that could serve as a basis for the development of an appraisal tool for clinical pathways. DESIGN Systematic review of the literature and personal contacts. Databases searched were: Medline, Embase, and Cinahl. Search terms were: practice guidelines, appraisal, and evaluation. The items of the identified apprais...

In systematic reviews, evidence-based practice and journal clubs critical appraisal tools are used to rate research papers. However, little evidence exists on whether the critical appraisal tool, subject matter knowledge or research design knowledge affect the appraisal of research papers. A match paired randomised trial was conducted in August/September 2010 in the Faculty of Medicine, Health ...

Objective: To highlight the emerging ethos of cultural rigour in use critical appraisal tools research involving First Nations peoples. Methods: Critical reflection on recent systematic review experience. Results: The concept is notably undefined peer-reviewed journal articles but evident development developed by Conclusions: Conventional for assessing study quality are built a limited view hea...

Background: Running standard journal clubs is one of the important goals of postgraduate education. Students should update their knowledge and learn critical appraisal skill. This study aimed to compare quality of journal clubs in Mashhad Dental School in order to improve educational and appraisal structure of journal clubs. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on journal clubs ...

The purpose of the current article is to define critical appraisal, identify its benefits, discuss conceptual issues influencing adequacy a and detail procedures help reviewers undertake appraisals. A appraisal involves careful systematic assessment study’s trustworthiness or methodological rigour, contributes assessing how confident people can be in findings set studies. To include high qualit...

This is a short book, 207 pages excluding the index, and is ideal for health professionals who wish to learn about or improve their skills in clinical evidence and critical appraisal. The reader can use the book like a critical appraisal course manual working through each chapter consecutively. Alternatively for the person with some knowledge of clinical evidence methodology and critical apprai...

OBJECTIVES To examine and compare preferences of knowledge users for two different formats of summarizing results from systematic reviews: infographics and critical appraisals. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Annual members' meeting of a Network of Centres of Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization called TREKK (Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids). TREKK is a national network of research...

background: running standard journal clubs is one of the important goals of postgraduate education. students should update their knowledge and learn critical appraisal skill. this study aimed to compare quality of journal clubs in mashhad dental school in order to improve educational and appraisal structure of journal clubs. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on journal clubs ...

METHODS: The Public Health Resource Unit of England issued the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme and evaluated the standardized crucial appraisal tools from the Joanna Briggs Institute that are used to assess methodological quality. The present study identified 6 studies that met the criteria from a keyword search that included: CHG and soap-water for bed-bath experiment. The experiment used ...