Presenter: Dr Cat Carver

Assessing the quality of the papers you find is as vital as finding them in the first place, but how should you do this? This session will discuss some common tools for appraising a paper, how to use them and how to choose the right one for your review. A paper and appraisal checklist were sent out in advance as a practical example for group discussion (the discussion was not recorded):

• Wu C, Chen X, Cai Y, Xia J, Zhou X, Xu S, et al. Risk factors associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome and death in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in wuhan, china. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Jul 1;180(7):934. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0994
• CASP checklist for cohort studies https://casp-uk.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CASP-Cohort-Study-Checklist-2018_fillable_form.pdf
  

About Cat: Dr Cat Carver is a PhD student and former doctor. She has experience of conducting evidence reviews in a range of flavours, garnered through working as a Research Fellow at LSHTM, a Scientific Writer for the Scottish Government, and doing rapid reviews for the CEBM in Oxford and UNCOVER in Edinburgh.