THEVAMALAR NADARAJA

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BOCT 7
PART 1 (CA)
CRITICAL APPRAISAL
SKILLS PROGRAMME
DEFINITION CHECKLIST
CASP are a series of checklists involving prompt
Critical appraisal is the process of carefully
questions to help you evaluate research studies.
and systematically assessing the outcome of
Section A (Validity)
scientific research to judge its validity,
Section B ( Trustworthiness of results
trustworthiness of results, value and relevance
Section C ( Value and Relevance)
in a particular research design

CASP CHECKLIST FOR

ELEMENTS COHORT STUDIES
Observational study that follows a group
VALIDITY of participants over a period of time,
TRSUTWORTHINESS OF RESULTS examining how certain factors affect
VALUE AND RELEVANCE their health outcomes.
CRITICAL Checklist has 12 questions

APPRAISAL
TYPE OF RESEARCH DESIGN CASP CHECKLIST
USE C.A FOR RCT
Systematic Review and meta-analysis Experimental studies where participants
Randomised Controlled trials are randomly allocated to receive or not
Cohort Studies receive the intervention
Cross-control studies
Cross-sectional studies Checklist has 11 questions
Diagnostic studies
 THEVAMALAR NADARAJA
4263201001
BOCT 7
PART 1 (S.R)

SYSTEMATIC
What is
Systematic Review
REVIEW Steps
Step 1 : Prepare topic
To identify and synthesizing Step 2 : Find evidence
research evidence that fits Step 3 : Screen the studies
include and exclude criteria in Step 4 : Extract the data
order to answer Research Step 5 : Analyze and synthesis
Question Step 6 : Report the findings
Preferred Reporting Items for
Systematic Reviews and Meta-
Analyses.
It is an evidence-based
minimum set of items for
reporting in systematic reviews
and meta-analyses.

Search articles , Remove

Duplicates, Screen Abstracts,
Study full text, Extract variables