Website

• Glossary of Study Designs
  A NICE (National Institute for Health Care and Excellence) list of 23 study types, from Before-and-After (BA) studies to Systematic Review, with descriptions of each one. Useful if you are not sure what type of study you are appraising.
   

Video

• Introduction to Critical Appraisal (4:11)
  Looks at the background to critical appraisal, what it is, and why we do it.

Books

• Greenhalgh, T. (2019). How to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine and healthcare (6th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
  This book was originally a series of articles in the British Medical Journal. 
• Straus, S. E., Glasziou, P., Richardson, W. S., & Haynes, R. B. (2011). Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach it (4th ed.). Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier.
  There are chapters on critical appraisal of each of therapy, diagnosis and screening, prognosis, and harm articles.
   

Book Chapter

• EBP step 3: Critically appraise the evidence
  This is Part 2: EBP Step 3 in the Evidence-based practice workbook : Bridging the gap between health care research and practice by Glasziou, Salisbury, & Del Mar. Includes an example of critical appraisal of a real RCT into the use of elastic stockings to prevent deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) on long plane flights.

Article

• Al-Jundi, A., & Sakka, S. (2017). Critical appraisal of clinical research. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR,11(5), JE01-JE05. https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/26047.9942

Document

• Critiquing research articles
  A 4-page document from the Student Learning Centre at Flinders University.