Tools, guidelines and checklists

EBVM Toolkit is designed to help busy veterinary practitioners answer a clinical question with the best available evidence

Critical appraisal tools - developed by The Joanna Briggs Institute
Critically appraised topics checklists for quantitative studies - developed by the University of Auckland, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
CASP checklists - critical appraisal tools produced by CASP UK, to be used when reading research papers

Standard Protocol Items: Recommedations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) - an international initiative that aims to improve the quality of clinical trial protocols
Guidelines for good clinical practice in clinical trials - Medical Research Council
NIHR randomised trials methods - sharing good practice in randomised trial design and conduct
VeNom Codes - the codes are a list of terms that are used in veterinary practice and have been standardised across institutes to facilitate academic discussion, research and clinical auditing
Systematic Reviews for Animals & Food (SYREAF) - list of review protocols

Quality Improvement resources - guidance, examples and templates produced as part of the Quality Improvement Project in the areas of Clinical Audit, Significant Event Audit, benchmarking, guidelines and checklists

PICO.vet - is designed to help you build a well-structured and focused clinical question
Clinical trials toolkit
Glossary: general terms for evidence-based medicine and epidemiology - compiled by John Gay, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University
Nuzzo, R. (2014) P values, the 'gold standard' of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume. [free access, Nature 12 February 2014]
Open Educational Resources (OERs) for research students - Ready to Research
Systematic Review Toolbox - latest tools to support the systematic review process
Quiz: How to critically evaluate evidence - 6 multiple choice questions by Jennifer Hamlin published in Veterinary Team Brief

CONSORT Statement (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) - encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). CONSORT reporting guidelines
Equator Network - the resource centre for good reporting of health research studies
MERIDIAN : Menagerie of Reporting guidelines Involving Animals - a collection of reporting guidelines for research studies that involve animals
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) - it is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses
The TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) Checklist: information to include when describing an intervention and the location of the information. Use this checklist in conjunction with the TIDieR guide [Available online, BMJ. 2014;348:g1687]

Dean, R. (2013) How to read a paper and appraise the evidence. In Practice, 35 (5), pp. 282-285
Greenhalgh, T. (2014) How to read a paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine. Fifth ed. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell
Journal Clubs - Join a journal club or start one in your practice