Research Guides: Module 2: Appraising Evidence: Appraisal

Worksheets

CASP Checklists (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)
Includes appraisal checklists designed for use with Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.
Critical Appraisal tools (The Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
Includes worksheets, explanations, and examples of critical appraisal.
Critical Appraisal Worksheets Logbook (Evidence-Based Medicine Toolbox)
Includes example scenarios and appraisal worksheets.
AMSTAR Checklist
A tool enables appraisal of systematic reviews of randomized and non-randomized studies of healthcare interventions.

Critical appraisal is actually a process to find out potential biases in a research study. It is important to know what potential biases could exist.

Catalogue of Bias
Stemming from original work by David Sackett. The entries are a work in progress and describe a wide range of biases in research studies.