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Rapid Critical Appraisal

This is a 1.25 hour course, aimed at all Health Library users who wish to develop critical appraisal skills. Finding and retrieving evidence from electronic sources is the first step in evidence based practice; the next step is to appraise the evidence.

You will learn to:

Understand the principles of critical appraisal and why you should undertake it
Appraise published research and judge its reliability
Assess the relevance of published research to your own work

Course content

What critical appraisal is... and is not
Why critical appraisal is necessary
Assessing the validity of a study
Assessing the results of a study
Assessing the relevance of results to your own practice

This course runs in 2 versions:

Qualitative Research - where a qualitative paper is analysed
Systematic Review or Quantitative Research - systematic review is analysed

Prerequsites

Complements the Cochrane Library Introduction; you are encouraged to attend both sessions

Training Dates

Quantitative Research	December	Thursday	13th	3:00 pm
	January	Monday	7th	3:00 pm
		Tuesday	29th	2:00 pm
	February	Monday	11th	2:00 pm
	March	Thursday	7th	CANCELLED
		Tuesday	19th	2:00 pm
Qualitative Research	December	Friday	21st	10:00 am
	January	Friday	18th	2:00 pm
	February	Thursday	7th	3:00 pm
		Thursday	21st	4:00 pm
		Wednesday	27th	10:00 am
	March	Thursday	14th	11:00 am
		Monday	25th	2:00 pm