Critical appraisal checklists
Our checklists are critical appraisal tools to help identify the many ways that error and bias can distort research results.
We have used our own experience and research to develop a collection of checklists, designed to support the critical reading of a research study. The checklists can help assess any potential sources of bias in the research study that can be recorded in a narrative summary.
We have also included other checklists, which our team have found useful for different types of research study.
The Cochrane Collaboration advocate against the use of scales yielding a summary score.
- SURE Experimental Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)
- The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias
- SURE Cross-sectional Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- SURE Cohort Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Cohort Studies
- SURE Case Controlled Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Case Control Studies
- SURE Case Series Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- Newcastle Ottawa Scale for non-randomised studies [SCORE]
- SURE Qualitative Studies Critical Appraisal checklist
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Qualitative Research
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Diagnostic Test Studies QUADAS-2
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Economic Evaluation Studies
- NICE Guidelines, The Manual Appendix H. pp7-20
- Checklist: economic evaluations
- NICE Guidelines, The Manual Appendix H. pp3 Algorithm for classifying quantitative (experimental and observational) study designs
- pp.24-25 in Evidence-Based Answers to Clinical Questions for Busy Clinicians. The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Monash Institute of Health Services Research: Melbourne, Australia, 2006
- L. Hartling et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 64 (2011) 861e871 - Figure 1
- AHRQ study design algorithms
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