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  • Information on Critical Appraisal / Risk of Bias Assessment
  • Useful tools and automation platforms to streamline the Critical Appraisal process
  • Relevant AI tools

Critical Appraisal / Risk of Bias Assessment

Critical Appraisal, also referred to as the Risk of Bias Assessment, is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context. This usually requires a team of at least two using a validated Risk of Bias tool.

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Validated Critical Appraisal / Risk of Bias Assessment Tools

Validated Critical Appraisal / Risk of Bias Assessment Tools

AI for Systematic Reviews - Critical Appraisal

Critical Appraisal AI Tools

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Below are some articles on the use of Generative AI tools in critical appraisal

  • Richard, H. R. R., Stephen, R. A., Hayley, A. H., Thomas, D. D., & Iain, S. W. (2023). Comparative study of ChatGPT and human evaluators on the assessment of medical literature according to recognised reporting standards. BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 30(1), e100830. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2023-100830 
  • Lai, H., Ge, L., Sun, M., Pan, B., Huang, J., Hou, L., Yang, Q., Liu, J., Liu, J., Ye, Z., Xia, D., Zhao, W., Wang, X., Liu, M., Talukdar, J. R., Tian, J., Yang, K., & Estill, J. (2024). Assessing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials With Large Language Models. JAMA Netw Open, 7(5), e2412687. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.12687