Qualitative Studies
Randomized Controlled Trials
Prognostic Studies
Diagnostic Accuracy Studies
Systematic Reviews
From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Getting Your Bearings (Deciding What the Paper is About)
Assessing the Methodological Quality of Published Papers
Papers that Report Diagnostic or Screening Tests
Papers that Tell You What Things Cost (Economic Analyses)
Papers that Report Drug Trials
Papers that Summarise Other Papers (Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
Papers that Go Beyond Numbers (Qualitative Research)