Making sense of results – CASP

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• Format Texts
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 3 - Appraising evidence, 4 - Decision making
• Duration <5 mins
• Difficulty Introductory

Key Concepts addressed

• 2-3g Statistical significance is not the same as importance
• 2-3d Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
• 2-3f Confidence intervals should be reported
• 3-2a Do the outcomes measured matter to you?
• 2-2a Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic
• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

Details

This module introduces the key concepts required to make sense of statistical information presented in research papers – it is not intended to teach you how to do statistics but rather how to assess critically and interpret the statistics presented by others. (3 hours)