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Editors checklists
Peer reviewers checklists
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Critical appraisal questions
The LJPC's editors don't routinely use checklists for critical appraisal, but these are the kind of questions we ask ourselves when reading papers:
Critical Appraisal Questions
- What is the paper about?
- Why was the study done?
- What type of study was done?
- Was it primary research (experiment, RCT, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, longitudinal, case report/series)?
- Was it secondary research (overview, systematic review, meta-analysis, decision analysis, guidelines development, economic analysis)?
- Was the design appropriate (for study on treatment, diagnosis, screening, prognosis, or causation)?
- Was the study ethical?
- Is the design right? (see table below)
| Does this treatment work? | systematic review, RCT |
| How good is a diagnostic test? | (prospective) cohort study |
| Should we screen? | RCT |
| What causes this disease? | RCT, prospective cohort study, case control study (rare diseases) |
| What did people think or do? | cohort study, cross-sectional survey, qualitative study |
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Current Edition:
London Journal of Primary Care
Volume 3, Number 1; January 2010
Table of Contents
· ISSN 1755-9146 (Print)
· ISSN 1755-9154 (Online)
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