HOW TO VALIDATE A RESEARCH WORK PART - LEVELS OF EVIDENCE AND GRADES OF EVIDENCE

HOW TO VALIDATE A RESEARCH WORK PART - LEVELS OF EVIDENCE AND GRADES OF EVIDENCE Levels of evidence help you to target your search at the type of evidence that is most likely to provide a reliable answer. It has been designed so that it can be used as a short-cut for busy clinicians, researchers, or patients to find the likely best evidence. Grades of evidence describe the strength and therefore value of the evidence relative to how rigorous the study was. REFERENCES 1. OCEBM Levels of Evidence Working Group. The Oxford Levels of Evidence 2.Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. 2. Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, et al. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone Inc; 2000:173-177.