LGBTQ Healthcare Resources

This is a chapter from "Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews."

CEBM's worksheets to assess systematic reviews, diagnostic, prognosis, and RCTs article types.

Cochrane Handbook chapter detailing the Cochrane risk of bias assessment for randomized trials

The CASP provides worksheets to appraise randomized control trials, systematic reviews, cohort studies, case control studies, qualitative research, economic evaluations, diagnostic tests, and clinical prediction rules.

Dartmouth provides a series of worksheets designed to aid in formulating clinical questions, appraising the evidence, and applying the evidence to the patient.

Includes quality checklists for experimental studies, quasi-experimental studies, attribution studies, questionnaire surveys, qualitative studies, mixed methods, "real-world" implementation studies, and action research.

University of Salford Health Care Practice R&D Unit critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of mixed methods studies (click on download).

University of Salford Health Care Practice R&D Unit critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of qualitative studies (click on download).

University of Salford Health Care Practice R&D Unit critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of quantitative studies

Benchmark article describing how to perform integrative reviews. Table 1 of the article which includes a scale to determine methodological rigor and data relevance for evidence.

Critical appraisal worksheets on topics including diagnosis, harm, therapy and qualitative research from JAMA Evidence

Listing from Johns Hopkins of the JAMA User's Guide to Medical Literature with each step in critical appraisal process. Read more to learn how to get access to the full text through Duquesne

The SORT scale addresses the quality, quantity, and consistency of evidence in individual studies or bodies of evidence

Addresses cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies