IN EVIDENCE: List of COURSE TEXTBOOKS in e-book format.
... reading & evaluating the biomedical literature
Tools
- AGREE II: Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE Research Trust; instrument to evaluate the process of practice guideline development and the quality of reporting)
- CASP Checklists (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, Oxford UK; 8 critical appraisal tools, designed to qualitatively assess: 1) systematic reviews; 2) randomized controlled trials; 3) cohort studies; 4) case-control studies; 5) economic evaluations; 6) diagnostic studies; 7) qualitative studies; 8) clinical prediction rule studies)
- AMSTAR Checklist: A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON Canada)
- DISCERN: Quality Criteria for Consumer Health Information on Treatment Choices (University of Oxford, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care; brief questionnaire to assess the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem)
- Acronym Finder (multilingual and multidisciplinary dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms)
Further reading
- BMJ - How to read a paper (collection of BMJ articles that explain how to read and interpret different kinds of research papers)