Critical Analysis of Literature. A Basic Process in Exercising Evidence Based Clinical Practice

Asenjo Lobos C.; Manterola C.

Keywords: evidence-based practice, Reader's guides, Users' guides, Critical appraisal of biomedical articles

Abstract

To carry out clinical practice based on evidence (CPBE), it is necessary to acquire some skills, including systematic literature search and application of formal rules for evaluation of the literature found, thereby obtaining the best evidence available. Thus, one could summarize the CPBE process includes several steps, one of which is critical appraisal of the evidence found in literature search. It is essential to understand that not all the information from scientific journals is reliable or valid, and therefore suitable to be instituted in clinical practice. For this reason, the information must be critically analyzed; i. e. carefully and systematically examining research to judge its validity and reliability, or stated another way, its value and relevance in a particular context. The aim of this article is to hierarchy the existing information on strategies to realize critical analysis of the scientific literature and to describe the tools most commonly used for this purpose.

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Título según WOS: Critical Analysis of Literature. A Basic Process in Exercising Evidence Based Clinical Practice
Título de la Revista: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
Volumen: 32
Número: 3
Editorial: SOC CHILENA ANATOMIA
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Página de inicio: 950
Página final: 955
Idioma: Spanish
Notas: ISI