How reliable is the evidence and how can you tell whether a claimed intervention is truly effective?
Critical appraisal skills enable you to methodically assess the validity, reliability and relevance of published studies.
The following resources provide appraisal tools for different study designs such as an RCT or a qualitative study. Qualitative appraisal tools assess the trustworthiness of the study (i.e., credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability).
