Pocket Guide to Critical Appraisal

Crombie - Pocket Guide to Critical Appraisal
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Authors/editors: IK Crombie
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1099-8
Page count: 66
Publisher: BMJ
Publication year: 1996

This concise guide to the assessment of medical research is designed to accompany every library visit. The first section of the book introduces the rationale behind critical appraisal, discusses the questions to be asked of each section of a paper and identifies the common pitfalls in published research.

Table of contents:
  1. Introducing critical appraisal
  2. Questions to ask when reading a paper
  3. Identifying the research method
  4. Interpreting the results
  5. Introduction to the check lists
  6. The standard appraisal questions
  7. Appraising surveys
  8. Appraising cohort studies
  9. Appraising clinical trials
  10. Appraising case-control studies
  11. Appraising review papers

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