EBP Learning & Assessment Framework for Clinical Placements
  • Introduction
  • What is Evidence-Based Practice?
  • Why this framework?
  • The Framework
    • The steps in context
    • 1. Asking
    • 2. Acquiring
    • 3. Appraising
    • 4. Applying
    • 5. Analysing
  • Printable Resources
    • Poster of EBP Steps
    • Summary of Prompts
    • Framework Overview model
  • Bibliography
  • Keep updated

3. Appraising

Assist students to appraise the evidence for both relevance and trustworthiness
Depending on the EBP question, the acquired evidence may specifically and comprehensively address the question, and it may be clearly trustworthy; or the evidence may require some level of critical appraisal to determine how relevant it is to the original situation and/or how trustworthy it is.

Prompts for facilitating 'Appraising'

  • How relevant to your situation is the information you’ve acquired?
  • How are you judging the relevance?
  • How trustworthy is the information you’ve acquired?
  • How are you judging the trustworthiness?
  • Would a critical appraisal tool be helpful for appraising this information? Why or why not?

Prompts for assessing 'Appraising'

  • Why did you judge the information was relevant enough?
  • Why did you judge the information was trustworthy enough?
  • Alternatively, why were you sure there was no relevant or trustworthy evidence to answer your question?
  • If you used a critical appraisal tool, what conclusion did you reach about the quality of the evidence? What were the main factors you considered?

General tips & strategies for 'Appraising'

The following websites contain a range of critical appraisal tools that can help practitioners learn to critically appraise the trustworthiness of different kinds of research evidence:
https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/
https://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/
http://srs-mcmaster.ca/research/evidence-based-practice-research-group
www.unisa.edu.au/research/Health-Research/Research/Allied-Health-Evidence/Resources/CAT
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  • Introduction
  • What is Evidence-Based Practice?
  • Why this framework?
  • The Framework
    • The steps in context
    • 1. Asking
    • 2. Acquiring
    • 3. Appraising
    • 4. Applying
    • 5. Analysing
  • Printable Resources
    • Poster of EBP Steps
    • Summary of Prompts
    • Framework Overview model
  • Bibliography
  • Keep updated