Critical appraisal

The Library has a number of print and e-books on critical appraisal:

• Search for books held in the Library​
• Search our complete ebook collection

The Library runs critical appraisal training sessions, which can be delivered in the Library or your place of work.

The course is in three sections, covering the following types of study: systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and qualitative research. We can go through any or all of them with you depending on your needs.

​If you're doing research, auditing or just interested in learning how to read and understand journal articles better, contact the library today by email or phone!

• Centre for Evidence Based Medicine: lots of information and critical appraisal tools, including on Levels of Evidence.
• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): provides various tools and checklists for appraising different types of research.

• Advanced evaluation information provided by The Open University.
• BestBETs: includes a database of critical appraisals undertaken by other people. It includes a variety of different critical appraisal checklists.
• CONSORT - transparent reporting of trials.
• CRAAP Test - for assessing websites, books, articles and a range of resources.
• Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library (CARL)
• HealthKnowledge: an online course on finding and appraising the evidence.
• How to spot fake news
• Making sense of statistics
• Students4BestEvidence: critical appraisal checklists.
• Testing Treatments: key concepts for critical thinking about treatment claims.
• Understanding health research: a toolkit guiding you through a series of questions to help you to review and interpret a published health research paper.

• Introduction to Critical Appraisal
• Critical Appraisal of a qualitative study
• Critical Appraisal of a quantitative study

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Page last updated: 11/6/2018