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Critical Appraisal: Appraising a Treatment, Hand Lacerations

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How to Review a Paper

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Writing an Abstract

Why was the Study Done?

What Type of Trial Did They Do?

What Type of Trial Did They Do?

The Population in the Study

Did Randomisation Work?

Countering Bias

Losses to Follow-up

Was the Study Big Enough?

Competing Interests

Competing Interests

The JADAD Score

External Validity

Why was the Study Done?

Critical Appraisal: Appraising a Treatment, Hand Lacerations
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There is an overwhelming amount of published scientific papers and nobody could read all those that are relevant to emergency medicine. You need to decide whether a paper is worth reading.

Fortunately, ‘must read’ papers come along infrequently, so don’t waste your time with those that are irrelevant or poorly conducted.

Going back to the paper you studied earlier, which of the following statements would make you decide a paper was worth reading?

It is relevant to what I do
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This is not an important problem
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Papers published in prestigious journals, like the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal, are usually important
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It will help me look after my patients better
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