Marie Abate

Professor of clinical pharmacy, West Virginia University

Understanding risk and clinical utility, dropouts, data handling and the discussion section when evaluating studies

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article focuses on measures of risk, data handling and the key points of a study’s discussion section.…

Evaluating study results: statistical inference, hypothesis testing and significance

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article focuses on types of potential error and statistical power.…

Evaluating study results: central tendency and variability and confidence intervals

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article explains some of the fundamental statistical concepts that can help interpret study data and consider how an entire population might respond…

Evaluating clinical study methods: treatment considerations, outcomes, variables and measurements

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article breaks down some of the factors to look at when critiquing the methods used by the researchers.…

Evaluating clinical trial eligibility criteria: recruitment methods, informed consent, control and blinding

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper, with focus on eligibility criteria, controlled experimental design and the importance of random assignment.…

Assessing authorship, study purpose and journals when evaluating clinical studies

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article focuses on why it is important to consider the authors’ background, aims and where the article was published.…

Identifying and evaluating research study types

Part of a comprehensive series showing how to evaluate a clinical study or research paper. This article focuses on the importance of understanding the study type and research design.…