Critical Appraisal And Evidence Analysis

Informative post, Melissa. You are right. The critical appraisal would allow one to decide the importance of an article for one’s task and to think about what further details may be essential to answer one’s question. This is what we are going to do in the oncoming weeks when we analyze the articles for our evidence-based practice project for this course. When we proceed with our project, we need articles with substantial evidence to support the study we undertook. Therefore, we will find out the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence in the articles we chose (validity). As the next step, we will see whether the results arrived at are appropriate (applicability) for proceeding with our study (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). Critiquing will