Critical Appraisal for Health Students

This is an interactive tutorial from the University of Manchester looking at critical appraisal.

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. The checklists can be printed or filled in electronically.

A tool from the University of Glasgow that will guide you through a series of questions to help you to review and interpret a published health research paper.

Racial bias in research impacts a study’s relevancy, validity and reliability, though presently this aspect is not addressed in critical appraisal tools, and consequently appraisers may often not take racial bias into account when assessing a paper’s quality. In response to this, a supplementary tool has been developed, to support appraisers in explicitly addressing racial bias. The tool is on this page

An online tutorial from Cardiff University which helps with assessing and evaluating sources for racial bias