Critical appraisal
ADEPT - Workshop and distance-learning based programme on applying methodological filters to retrieve evidence. It was originally devised for library staff in the South Thames region by Andrew BoothCASP - (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) from the Public Health Resources Unit a 'not-for-profit' NHS public health consultancy based in Oxford, UK.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine Teaching EBM
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (UK) - Provides definitions, resources, and training materials on review methods such as systematic review
Evidence Wheel created by Library Services at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, based at Glenfield Hospital and Leicester General Hospital and the University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences Library.
SEEK (Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge), University of Sheffield Collates online tutorials and resources to support information literacy and critical appraisal
TRIAGE (Trent Research & Development Support Unit Research Information Access Gateway).
Critical appraisal/Evidence based healthcare publications How to read a paper series of 10 guides by Trisha Greenhalgh in the British Medical Journal.
Users' guides to the nursing literature:
- An introduction by Nicky Cullum provides an introduction to critical appraisal in nursing Searching for the best evidence
- Part 1: where to look by K Ann McKibbon & Susan Marks Searching for the best evidence
- Part 2: searching CINAHL and Medline K Ann McKibbon & Susan Marks Identifying the best research design to fit the question.
- Part 1: quantitative designs by Jackie Roberts. Identifying the best research design to fit the question.
- Part 2: qualitative designs by Jenny Ploeg.
Information on this page was supplied by Judy Atkinson.
Updated: March 2007