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

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