News > Evaluating the quality of health information
Online critical appraisal skills course
01 July 2010
News > Evaluating the quality of health information
Finding and Appraising the Evidence is a freely available online course, available from the Health Knowledge web site, that will help you to develop the critical appraisal skills you need to help you assess clinical evidence. The modules take you through the process of how to find the evidence and then how to assess the validity and reliability of the published research in order to provide effective and efficient healthcare. The course is made up of 6 modules:
- Overall introduction to critical appraisal
- Finding the evidence
- Randomised controlled trials
- Systematic reviews
- Economic evaluations
- Making sense of results
The course has been written for those who wish to improve their skills in critical appraisal. The course starts from the basics and does not assume prior knowledge or training in this area. It has been structured so that busy health care professionals, and others, can undertake learning in small chunks whenever they have a spare moment.
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