GP Class Critical Appraisal One.

06/02/2009

Answer these questions as you read the paper.

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What is the aim/objective of the study

What is the study design
What are the outcome measures of interest
Who is included in the study (what is the inclusion and exclusion criteria)
How were the data gathered
What are the results
Which results are not due to chance
Could the results have been due to bias
a. Selection bias (think about participant selection)
b. Information Bias (think about how info was collected)
9. Was there confounding, was it controlled for, how?
10. Assess findings by Bradford Hill criteria
a. Biologically plausible
b. Strength of association
c. Time sequence
d. Dose response
e. Consistency with other studies
f. Experimental evidence
g. Specificity
11. Generalisability-Who could these findings apply to?