This package covers modules on:

• Introduction to Critical Appraisal
• Challenges using evidence to change practice.
• 5 steps of evidence-based practice.
• Developing critical appraisal skills.
• Integrating and acting on the evidence.
• The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)

• Finding & Searching for Evidence Module
• Formulating a Clinical Question
• Searching Databases
• Demonstration of a search

• Study Designs
• Introduction to study designs
• What is the ‘best available evidence’?
• Hierarchy of evidence
• Typologies of evidence
• Different types of study designs
• Deciphering the study design

• Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) Modules
• Introduction to the critical appraisal of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT’s)
• How to use a CASP Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) checklist
• Making Sense of results: Measures of Effectiveness in Randomised Controlled Trials

• Systematic Reviews Module
• Is the Evidence Useful? – Introduction to critical appraisal of systematic reviews with meta-analysis
• Is the Evidence Useful? – Quality markers of systematic reviews with meta-analysis 
• Is the Evidence Useful? - Making sense of results
• How to use a CASP Checklist – Systematic Review with Meta-analysis - Randomised Controlled Trials
• How to use a CASP Checklist – Systematic Review with Meta-analysis - Observational Studies
  

• Cohort Studies
• Introduction to critical appraisal of Cohort Studies
• Commonly used effect measures
• Interpreting effect measures
• How to use a CASP Checklist – Cohort Studies

• Qualitative Research
• Using qualitative research in policy and practice
• Introduction to qualitative Research
• Quality assessment of qualitative research
• How to use a CASP Checklist – Qualitative research