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

• 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