Reporting Research and Evaluating Studies

Tools and checklists for the critical appraisal of systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, diagnostic test studies, economic evaluation studies, qualitative research, case control studies, and cohort studies.

Critical appraisal worksheets for systematic reviews, diagnosis studies, prognosis research, and therapy or randomized controlled trial studies.

Cochrane's risk of bias assessment tool for non-randomized studies.

The Cochrane Collaboration’s domain-based evaluation tool for assessing the methodological quality of randomized trials.

A guide to conducting Cochrane systematic reviews. See Chapter 8: Assessing risk of bias in included studies.

Resources, including guidelines, to grade the quality of medical evidence and assign a level of recommendation. Produced by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group.

Simple, yet widely used quality assessment questionnaire for randomized controlled trials.

Checklists for reviewing randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, case control, case reports, diagnostic test accuracy, qualitative, and many more study types.

A quality assessment tool for assessing nonrandomized studies.

A checklist that rates the quality and interpretability of clinical trials.