Assessing evidence

Welcome to this Core Knowledge course on Assessing evidence.

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

• recognise the principles of critical reading, and undertake critical review of scientific literature
• appraise a scientific paper and clinical guidelines
• use critical appraisal skills and apply these when reading literature
• recall the definitions and relevance of levels of evidence
• describe the development and application of clinical guidelines, integrated care pathways and protocols.