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A one day short course "Critical Appraisal Of Quantitative Research" will take
place in the Department of Social Medicine on 7 October 2008.
For more information and details on how to book please see
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/caquantres.htm
Tutors: Dr Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Who the course is intended for: Clinicians, healthcare decision makers and
researchers. A basic understanding of randomised trials and observational
research methods would be an advantage but is not essential.
Course aims and objectives: To provide participants with a structured basis
for critically appraising quantitative research papers.
By the end of the course students should be able to:
give a structured appraisal of a published quantitative research paper
identifying its strengths and weaknesses;
describe the main quantitative research methodologies;
identify sources of bias and confounding in published papers.
Teaching Time: Seven hours consisting of short lectures and practical
sessions in which participants will critically review 3-4 published papers.
Papers and teaching materials will be distributed in advance to enable
participants to familiarise themselves with the papers forming the basis of
practical sessions.
Suggested pre-course reading:
Hunt DL. Jaeschke R. McKibbon KA. Users' guides to the medical literature:
XXI. Using electronic health information resources in evidence-based practice.
Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA 2000; 283 (14): 1875-9 and
others in this series.
Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Papers that report drug trials. BMJ 315;
305-8: 1997.
Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician.
II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls. BMJ 315; 422-5: 1997.
Greenhalgh T. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers. BMJ
315: 305-8:1997.
Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. I:
Different types of data need different statistical tests. BMJ 315: 364-6;1997.
Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Getting your bearings (deciding what the
paper is about). BMJ 243-6:1997.
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