Making Sense of Critical Appraisal provides all the necessary information on how to read and understand medical research publications critically and to decide whether the contents of such publications are clinically useful in the care of patients.
Illustrated throughout with medically relevant examples, this text covers all aspects of study design and clinical audit to give a clear framework for critical reading.
Introduction
Basic stats
Relevant study design issues
Critical appraisal of studies on screening on diagnostic tests
Critical appraisal of cross-sectional surveys
Critical appraisal of prospective studies
Critical appraisal of retrospective studies
Critical appraisal of randomised clinical trials
Handling survival time data
Critical appraisal of systematic reviews
Critical appraisal of clinical audit
Critical appraisal of economic evaluations
Critical appraisal of qualitative studies
Glossary.
