In the first part of this assignment we were to make a PICO question and choose three research papers and justify it according to currency, level of evidence ,what makes me to choose these articles and compare and contrast with each paper. now in the second part we have to conduct a critical appraisal for those three papers according to the given questions and assessing the quality of selected articles and synthesising the evidence using the concepts of population health subjects. I have summarised the learning concepts below and I have attached the first assignment as well.
Concepts in each lecture
lecture 1
- Understand the difference between screening and diagnosis
- Describe the goals for screening
- Understand what makes a disease screenable
- Evaluate the feasibility of screening
- Describe screening programs available in Australia
lecture 2
- Appraise the validity of diagnostic evidence
- Interpret results from diagnostic studies
- Describe sensitivity and specificity
- Describe how diagnostic evidence can inform practice
lecture 3
- Study validity – potential errors in epidemiological studies
- Systematic error
• Selection bias and measurement error
- Confounding
- Random error
- Critical appraisal
- What makes a good study?
- The basics of critical appraisal
lecture 4
- Systematic reviews and meta analyses
- Isn’t life fine without them – why we need systematic reviews
- Assessing the quality of a systematic review
- Clinical guidelines
- Assessing the quality of guidelines
- Assignment 2
the first part of the assignment two papers of the assignment should be replaced with a suitable articles according do the tutor. therefore I will attached the first part of the assignment too.
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