Alumni Access Draft

A critically appraised topic (or CAT) is a short summary of evidence on a topic of interest, usually focussed around a clinical question. A CAT is like a shorter and less rigorous version of a systematic review, summarising the best available research evidence on a topic.

• McMaster/UBC
• Pacific University
• Queen's University, Canada
  
• University of Ottawa
• Univ of Western Australia, Sydney
• The CATbank - 
  • This is a creation, storage and retrieval facility for a collection of Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine. You can browse CATs and NNTs (Number Needed to Treat). Information for getting a copy of CATmaker shareware is available on the page.
• EBM Toolbox - 
  • This includes pre-test probabilities, SpPins and SnNouts, Likelihood Ratios, Numbers Needed to Treat, and Prognosis from the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.