CASP Tools & Checklists This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research, these include tools for Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule. These are free to download and can be used by anyone under the Creative Commons License. CASP Checklists (click to download) Some Study Designs..... What is a Systematic Review? Frequently there will have been more than one study addressing a particular health question. What is a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)? An RCT is a type of interventional or experimental study design. What is a Qualitative study? A qualitative study examines the experiences and beliefs of people from their own perspective. What is a Cohort study? A cohort study, also known as a follow-up or longitudinal study, is another observational study design. What is a Case-Control study?
RSS The Pieces of Systematic Review with Margaret Foster Webinar Series | NNLM This series concluded on August 3, 2017. All the sessions were recorded, and links to the recordings can be found below. Please direct any questions to nnlm-scr@unthsc.edu (link sends e-mail) or (817) 735-2223. Check out Margaret Foster's website (link is external) chronicling the series and for a list of related resources, many of which were mentioned throughout the series. Guest Speaker: Margaret J. Thursday, February 2, 2017 - How do you determine if a research question is right for a systematic review? Speaker Bio: Margaret Foster is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University and serves as the Systematic Reviews Coordinator at the Medical Sciences Library with a joint position at the School of Public Health and the College of Medicine of the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center. Session 1 Topic: How do you determine if a research question is right for a systematic review? Session 2 Topic: What searches beyond the typical databases should be done?
Checklists for Assessing Study Qualities • COSMIN Use one of our checklists for assessing the methodological quality of a study and improve the design and reporting of your study. The methodological quality of studies on measurement properties can be assessed for different purposes, for example, as guidance for designing or reporting your study on measurement properties, to determine the risk of bias in single studies included in a systematic review of outcome measurement instruments or by reviewers or journal editors to appraise the methodological quality of articles or grant applications of studies on measurement properties. Therefore, we have developed the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist, and we are currently developing a COSMIN Study Design checklist and a COSMIN Reporting checklist for these different purposes as the standards included in each checklist will be slightly different.
Authoring What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences McMaster University - Guideline Development Checklist About the Checklist This is a webpage for the GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist, which contains a comprehensive list of topics and items outlining the practical steps to consider for developing guidelines. The Guideline Development Checklist project is a partnership between the Guidelines International Network (GIN) and McMaster University. The checklist is intended for use by guideline developers to plan and track the process of guideline development and to help ensure that no key steps are missed. Users of the checklist should become familiar with the topics and the items before applying them. What the Checklist is and what it isn't: The checklist is designed to serve as a publicly available and interactive resource, with links to learning tools and training materials, for those interested in beginning, enhancing or evaluating their guideline development process. Checklist Translations: Using the Checklist There are two versions of the checklist for guideline developers to use:
Guides Covidence and Rayyan MMAT : mixed methods appraisal tool [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage Aim of this WIKI: To enable collaborative work for developing a Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT). The MMAT is intended to be used as a checklist for concomitantly appraising and/or describing studies included in systematic mixed studies reviews (reviews including original qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies). The MMAT was first published in 2009. For instance, you may state that the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool is: Designed for systematic reviews that include qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies;Efficient as it allows to use one tool for concomitantly appraising the most common types of empirical studies;Addressing the quality of mixed methods studies (appraisal of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods components);Based on a constructionist theory and a literature review;Content validated using feedback from experts and workshops;Pilot tested for reliability;Already used worldwide for at least 100 systematic mixed studies reviews (to our knowledge).