Reading tips for the clinician on the WCPT website

• https://www.wcpt.org
• A series of three Keynotes on reading tips. The content is based on “Critical Evaluation of Research in Physical Rehabilitation” by A Helewa and JM Walker, and articles published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
  • How to tell whether an article is worth reading  (PDF)
  • Criteria for deciding the quality of an article  (PDF)
  • Are study results good enough to be generalised  (PDF)

• Guidelines for reading clinical trial research articles (2011) (PDF)

Assessment tools for quantitative and qualitative studies

• Moher, D., Schulz, K.F. & Altman, D.G. (2001) The CONSORT statement: Revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials. THE LANCET, 357, 1191-1194     Article
• Jadad, A.R., Moore, R.A., Carroll, D., Jenkinson, C., Reynolds, D.J., Gavaghan, D.J. & McQuay, H.J. (1996). Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: is blinding necessary? Controlled clinical trials 17, 1, 1-12     Article
• Wells, G.A.,  Shea, B., O’Connell, D., Peterson, J.,  Welch, V., Losos, M. & Tugwell, P.  The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses.     Article