Critical appraisal of clinical trials

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• Format Lessons
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration >15 mins
• Difficulty Intermediate

Key Concepts addressed

• 2-1a Comparison groups should be similar
• 2-1c Comparison groups should be treated equally
• 2-1g All should be followed up
• 2-3d Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
• 2-3f Confidence intervals should be reported
• 2-3h Don’t confuse “no evidence” with “no effect”
• 1-2e Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects
• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

Details

Slides developed by Amanda Burls for an interactive presentation covering the most important features of well controlled trials.