1. Dr. AMNA KHAIRY A.KAREEM
MBBS(U of K)MPH (NU) DRME candidate
Community Medicine lecturer
EBM instructor
Altababa and SEBMA Member.
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2. What is critical appraisal ?
Importance of critical appraisal.
Prerequisites to critical appraisal.
Critical appraisal scheme .
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7. Is a systematic evaluation of clinical research
papers in order to decide:
Relevance
Validity
Results(Importance).
Applicability of the of the results.
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14. Study designs
Level of evidence
Grades of recommendtions.
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intervention
observational
Descriptive
Case Report Case series
Cross
sectional
analytical
Case control Cohort
Trials
(RCT /Non RCT)
17. Describes case characteristics
May generate future ideas
Useful for rare diseases and if
disease is caused by single kind
of exposure
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18. Collects information about the
current disease state or outcome
and or exposure status
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19. Identifying a group of subjects defined by their
outcome, we look back in time to identify an
exposure of interest.
The aim is to identify risk factors of disease
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21. Identifying a group of subjects defined by their
exposure status, being followed up over time
to identify an outcome of interest.
The aim is to determine whether an exposure
status influences risk of disease
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intervention
observational
Descriptive
Case Report Case series
Cross
sectional
analytical
Case control Cohort
Trials
(RCT /Non RCT)
26. Case Series/ Case reports
Case-control studies
Cohort studies
Randomised control
studies
Systematic
reviews
Meta-
analyse
s
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27. Is it always the case ?
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PICO Question
Prevalence /
Etiology & risk factors
Diagnosis: signs,
symptoms or tests
Prognosis
Therapy
Study Design
Cross-sectional study
Cohort study/ Case–
control
RCT or cross sectional
Cohort study
RCT
29. L1A
• Systematic review of RCT
L1B
• Individual RCT (with appropriate power)
L2A
• Systematic review of cohort studies
L2B
• Individual cohort study , low quality RCT
L3A
• Systematic review of case-control studies
L3B
• Individual case-control study
L 4
• Case-series (and poor quality cohort and case-control studies)
L5
• Single case report, expert opinion "
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30. • consistent level 1 studies
• consistent level 2 or 3
studies or extrapolations from level 1
studies
• level 4 studies or extrapolations from level
2 or 3 studies
level 5 evidence or troublingly inconsistent
or inconclusive studies of any level
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Abstract
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Discussion and
conclusion
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Abstract
Relevance
Methodology
Validity
Results
Importance
My patients
+my setting
Applicability
33. common problem
outcome DOE(markers of the disease)
vs. POEM(markers of health).
Change the practice
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Relevance
• personal knowledge
Validity
Importance
• Results section
Applicability
• Personal Experience
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Therapy effectiveness
Precision
P value
Confidence
interval
Magnitude
NNT
NNH