Critical Appraisal Summaries
CAHE has a growing collection of critical appraisal summaries, using the CASP tool, on a wide range of topics. As a service to all allied health practitioners, they are made freely accessible in the CAHE website and reflect journal club discussions to date. For each summary, CAHE provides the citation details and methodological quality of the study identified to address the clinical question developed by the journal club. Copyright issues preclude CAHE from putting the full text of the critically appraised papers on the website. The citations are provided so that clinicians can access the article from their own library sources. This page is regularly updated.
Search by topic:
- Aged Care
- Chronic disease management (COPD/pulmonary rehab, diabetes, chronic pain)
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Hand rehabilitation
- Mental health
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Orthopaedic rehabilitation
- Pediatric care
- Speech therapy
- Women's health
- General topics
CAHE will continually update this compendium of critically appraised research publications as a resource for health services interested in implementing journal clubs within their health services.
DOHSA Librarian Contact Details
The Centre for Allied Health Evidence aims to make CAHE Journal Club Critically Appraised articles available for review and consideration by South Australian Department of Health employees.
In order to access the articles South Australian Department of Health (DoHSA) employees will need to contact the DoHSA Librarian:
South Australian Department of Health
Library & Information Services
Level 2 162 Grenfell Street Adelaide SA
PO Box 287 Rundle Mall Adelaide SA 5000
Phone 08 8226 6070 Fax 08 8226 6677
Email
health.library@health.sa.gov.au
Department of Health,
South Australia, Library website
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CASP Tools
To interpret the CAHE Journal Appraised Article summaries you will require the appropriate CASP tool:
CASP RCT tool (Randomised Controlled Trial)
CASP SR tool (Systematic Review)
The four CASP tools as are provided courtesy of Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust 2002. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust. If permission is given, then copies must include this statement together with the words Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust 2002. However, NHS organisations may reproduce or use the publication for non-commercial educational purposes provided the source is acknowledged.
Critical appraisal of publications
Searching of the database will retrieve the most relevant publication that has been appraised by the CAHE working party or as a result of previous appraisal by a CAHE journal club. The appraisal is available as free access to all users. Depending on copyright requirements, some abstracts and full texts of publications would also be available as external links.
Retrieving full text publications
Availability of full text publications will be dependent on copyright
requirements. If the chosen publication is freely available, appropriate
links to this effect will be provided. If, due to copyright requirements,
the publication has limited access, contact details will be provided for
South Australian public health sector employers directing them to
appropriate library sources.
For more information on library services available to individual health care
practitioners, please contact CAHE journal club working party staffs.
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