Health professionals and consumers alike can sometimes be confused about what constitutes reliable versus unreliable health research. What do we believe, and how can we tell?
This tool from the Medical Research Council in the UK and the University of Glasgow is a very useful way to help you assess the merits of particular studies. It guides you through a series of questions to ask about what you're looking at, and at the end you receive a summary of your answers and what they mean - which should help you to decide how reliable the conclusions really are.
Understanding Health Research: A tool for making sense of health studies
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