Critical Reading
Research Article Critique Checklist
from Ridsdale; Practitioner, 238:108-13. 1994.
Introduction
- Is the study relevant & important to our practice?
- Is the work useful & original? Does it add to the fund of useful knowledge?
- Was the study setting similar enough to our working environment that, assuming the results are valid, they may be extrapolated to our practice?
Methods
- Was the architecture or design of the study appropriate to answer the questions posed in the introduction?
- Is the connection betw. the hypothesis & the instruments used clearly justified?
- Is the relationship betw. outcomes & measures plausible?
- Are the instrments used appropriate to the study & have they been validated previously?
- Are the population & the population sample defined & recognisably similar to that seen in practice?
- Are the recruitment definitions & inclusion/exclusion criteria clearly stated?
- Is the sample size sufficient to answer the questions posed, & has there been an attempt to estimate the required numbers in advance?
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