Critical Appraisal Paper
The SMD Critical Appraisal Check List for Research Papers (50 marks)
You will be expected to provide a short detailed answer to each question. Yes or No are not sufficient
This may need a literature search to establish the use of any reference used by the authors of this research paper.
It is essential to use the format of this checklist to facilitate marking.
The potential marks for each question are in brackets.
1) Give the full citation of the paper (1) Kunchur, Ranjit, Allan Need, Toby Hughes, and Alastair Goss. "Clinical investigation of C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide test in prevention and management of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaws." Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 67, no. 6 (2009): 1167-1173. …show more content…
(2) Yes, the abstract succinctly describes the purpose of the clinical investigation posed in the paper, the patients and methods used for the investigation, the results, and the conclusions. Yes, the purpose, patients and methods, results, and conclusions, provided in the abstract, are with adequate details. The purpose briefly mentions what is the subject of the investigation and why it has done; the patients and methods concisely informs who were the patients and what methods were used; the results summarizes the most important results obtained; the conclusions succinctly notes what the results mean and how these outcomes can …show more content…
No, it 's not an Experimental Randomised Controlled Trial, rather the data reflect clinical practice. Patients were referred, assessments made, informed consent given, and outcomes recorded. Was it a single blind, double blind or open design? None
• an Observational Study (i.e cohort, case control, or cross sectional)? Were the clinical data recorded prospectively and accurately? Yes, it 's an Observational Study (case control) and done to determine the effectiveness of CTX text comparing a high risk group, a affected group, and a control group. The data were recorded using a stand-alone personal computer and appropriate statistical tests were performed. The study was performed in accordance with the clinical and laboratory audit procedures of the institutions involved.
• or was this paper simply a descriptive case review? No, it 's not a descriptive review. It 's a single-center
You will be expected to provide a short detailed answer to each question. Yes or No are not sufficient
This may need a literature search to establish the use of any reference used by the authors of this research paper.
It is essential to use the format of this checklist to facilitate marking.
The potential marks for each question are in brackets.
1) Give the full citation of the paper (1) Kunchur, Ranjit, Allan Need, Toby Hughes, and Alastair Goss. "Clinical investigation of C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide test in prevention and management of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaws." Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 67, no. 6 (2009): 1167-1173. …show more content…
(2) Yes, the abstract succinctly describes the purpose of the clinical investigation posed in the paper, the patients and methods used for the investigation, the results, and the conclusions. Yes, the purpose, patients and methods, results, and conclusions, provided in the abstract, are with adequate details. The purpose briefly mentions what is the subject of the investigation and why it has done; the patients and methods concisely informs who were the patients and what methods were used; the results summarizes the most important results obtained; the conclusions succinctly notes what the results mean and how these outcomes can …show more content…
No, it 's not an Experimental Randomised Controlled Trial, rather the data reflect clinical practice. Patients were referred, assessments made, informed consent given, and outcomes recorded. Was it a single blind, double blind or open design? None
• an Observational Study (i.e cohort, case control, or cross sectional)? Were the clinical data recorded prospectively and accurately? Yes, it 's an Observational Study (case control) and done to determine the effectiveness of CTX text comparing a high risk group, a affected group, and a control group. The data were recorded using a stand-alone personal computer and appropriate statistical tests were performed. The study was performed in accordance with the clinical and laboratory audit procedures of the institutions involved.
• or was this paper simply a descriptive case review? No, it 's not a descriptive review. It 's a single-center