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Below are lists of as many critical appraisal tools and checklists as we have been able to find. These are split into health sciences and social sciences because the two areas tend to take different approaches to evaluation, for various reasons!
Critical appraisal checklists and tools for Health Sciences
JAMA Series on Step-By-Step Critical Appraisal - Johns Hopkins of the JAMA User's Guide to Medical Literature with each step in critical appraisal process. Read more to learn how to get access to the full text through Duquesne
JBI Joanna Briggs Institute critical appraisal tools checklists for Analytical cross sectional studies, case control studies, case reports, case series, cohort studies, diagnostic test accuracy, economic evaluations, prevalence studies, qualitative research, quasi-experimental (non-randomised) studies, RCTs, systematic reviews and for text and opinion
Knowledge Translation Program - Toronto based KTP critical appraisal worksheets for systematic reviews, prognosis, diagnosis, harm and therapy
NHLBI (National Heart, Blood and lung Institute) study quality assessment tools for case control studies, case series, controlled intervention, observational cohort and cross sectional studies, before-after (pre-post) studies with no control group, systematic reviews and meta analyses
ROB-MEA tool for assessing Risk Of Bias due to Missing Evidence in a synthesis
SIGN - Critical appraisal notes and checklists for case control studies, cohort studies, diagnostic studies, economic studies, RCTs, meta-analyses and systematic reviews
Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy - the SORT scale for quality, quantity and consistency of evidence in individual studies or bodies of evidence
