M.Sc. Course Material: Critical Appraisal

This website is for students following the M.Sc. programme in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. It provides Martin Bland's teaching material for the Critical Appraisal Module.

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• Lecture notes: Appraising Diagnostic Test Studies (Adobe PDF file)
• Text version: Appraising Diagnostic Test Studies (Adobe PDF file)
• Coste et al. paper appraised in lecture (link to BMJ website)
• Guidelines and Criteria for Appraising Diagnostic Test Studies (Adobe PDF file)
• Greenhalgh (1997) How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests (link to BMJ website)
• Whiting et al. (2003) The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews (link to Biomed Central website)
• Exercise: critical appraisal of a diagnostic test study (Adobe PDF file)
• Supporting material: Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests (Measuring Health and Disease Module) (Adobe PDF file)
• Supporting material: Cohen’s Kappa (Measuring Health and Disease Module) (Adobe PDF file)

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