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CRITICAL APPRAISAL
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Validity
Was the defined
representative sample of Was patient follow-up
patients assembled at a sufficiently long and
common (usually early) point complete?
in the course of their disease)? Yes
Yes
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Validity
If subgroups with different
Were objective outcome prognoses are identified, did
criteria applied in a “blind” adjustment for important
fashion? prognostic factors take place?
No Yes
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Importance
How likely are the How precise are the
outcomes over time? prognostic estimates?
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Applicability
Will this evidence
make a clinically
Is our patient so important impact
different from on our conclusions
Do the results those in the study about what to
apply to our that its results offer or tell our
patient? cannot apply? patient?
Yes No Yes
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Important
LoE
2B
Valid Applicable
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