Critical Appraisal Guidance

• Evidence Based Medicine and Critical Appraisal Guidance
• Research Design Guidance
• Statistics Guidance
• Critical Checklists and Tools
• How to set up a Journal Club

Evidence Based Medicine and Critical Appraisal

• CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)
• Catalogue of Bias (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science) Designed to better understand the persistent presence, diversity, and impact of biases
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science)
• Critical Appraisal Resources (Royal College of Nursing)
• EBM toolkit (BMJ Best practice) Log in via OpenAthens account and select "evidence" tab
• Evidence Essentials (Cochrane) Online resource offering an introduction to health evidence and how to use it to make informed health choices
• How to read a paper (BMJ) Links to BMJ articles on critical appraisal - NHS OpenAthens account needed
• Testing Treatments International (NIHR) Interactive book covering key concepts for critical thinking about treatment claim
• Understanding Health Research A tool for making sense of health studies

• How to read a Paper (Tricia Greenhalgh)

• Critically Appraising for Antiracism - Ramona Naicker (University Health and Medical Librarians Group) Recording of session delivered at University Health & Medical Librarians Group (UHMLG) Spring Forum 2022 on some of the effects of racism in medical research and how to critically appraise for it

Research Design

• All you need to know about: Case Control Studies (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)
• All you need to know about: Cohort Studies (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)
• All you need to know about: Randomised Controlled Trials (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)
• All you need to know about: Systematic Reviews (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)
• Research designs handout

• Module 2 Systematic Reviews and Meta analysis (Cochrane Mental Health)
• Module 3 Randomised Controlled Trials (Cochrane Mental Health)
• Module 4 Cohort Studies (Cochrane Mental Health)
• Module 5 Case control studies (Cochrane Mental Health)

Statistics

• EBM Notebook: Statistical approaches to uncertainty: p values and confidence intervals unpacked (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine : Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science)
• Making Sense of Statistics (Sense about Science)
• Statistics Worksheet (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)

• Number Needed to Treat (NNT) (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine : Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science)

• Interpreting the results of meta-analysis: Evidence of no effect? (Cochrane Training)
• P-values and Type I Error (Terry Shaneyfelt)
• Statistics Corner: Confidence Intervals (Terry Shaneyfelt)

Critical Appraisal Checklists and Tools

• Checklists (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)
• Critical Appraisal Checklists (CASP)
• Critical Appraisal Tools (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine : Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science)
• Critical Appraisal Tools (Joanna Briggs Institute)

How to Set Up a Journal Club

• Steps to setting up a journal club (MWL Library and Knowledge Service)

• Career Focus - Journal Clubs (BMJ)
• Journal Clubs: 2. Why and how to run them and how to publish them (BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine) NHS OpenAthens account needed
• EBM Notebook : Improving journal club presentations, or, I can present that paper in under 10 minutes (BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine) NHS OpenAthens account needed.