Evidence Based Practice: Introduction to Systematic and Scoping Reviews: Assessment Tools and Critical Appraisal

A Measurement Tool to Assess the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews.

The critical appraisal tools are designed for systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case studies, economic evaluations, diagnostic studies and qualitative studies.

The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford (UK) provides tools to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care. Also provides useful tools and downloads for the critical appraisal of medical evidence.

Chapter 13.5.2.3 Tools for assessing methodological quality or risk of bias in non-randomized studies

Chapter 8.3 Tools for Assessing Quality and Risk of Bias

COSMIN checklists assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties.

A list of critical appraisal tools, linked to the websites where they were developed.

Includes: Searching the literature -- Getting your bearings : what is this paper about? -- Assessing methodological quality -- Statistics for the non-statistician -- Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions -- Papers that report trials of complex interventions -- Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests -- Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) ...

3.6.1 Systematically assess the risk of bias, using predefined criteria
3.6.2 Assess the relevance of the study’s populations, interventions, and outcome measures
3.6.3 Assess the fidelity of the implementation of interventions

Checklists for case report, case reports, randomized control trials, systematic reviews, etc.

The MMAT can be used to appraise the quality of empirical studies, i.e., primary research based on experiment, observation or simulation.

Well, G.A. et al., (2013) The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses.

Whiting, P.F. et al., (2011) QUADAS-2: A revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. Ann Intern Med. 2011;155(8):529-536. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-155-8-201110180-00009

STROBE checklists for cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies