Critical Appraisal Course (NWN252602202N)

Programme

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This course will run on the 25th and 26th February 2020, delegates must be available to attend both days.

Please arrive by 08:30 for registration.

Mandatory: Dental Core Trainee Year 1, or Dental Core Trainee Year 2/3, or Dental Specialty Trainee, or Educational Supervisor

The Critical Appraisal Course enables you to systematically assess the trustworthiness, relevance, and results of published papers

Understand how to:

• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of a clinical paper

By the end of the course delegates will be able to assess the validity and reliability of results from a scientific paper by understanding how to do the following:

• formulate and define a research question clearly
• understand which types of study design are most appropriate for which types of clinical questions and establish how this affects the interpretation of results
• identify and assess the implications of different types of bias and confounding factors
• understand how to interpret statistical analyses and common statistical tests
• calculate quantitative measures such as relative risk, relative risk reduction, absolute risk and number needed to treat
• interpret measures of statistical uncertainty such as p-values and confidence intervals
• understand how to appraise treatment studies, prognostic studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses