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"A variety of tools have been developed to assist in the development, reporting and evaluation of practice guidelines and health system guidance."

AMSTAR 2 critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised and non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions or both

American Occupational Therapy Association

British Medical Journal critical appraisal checklists for: Appraising two-armed RCTs, Appraising multiple-armed RCTs, Appraising diagnostic test studies, Appraising systematic reviews, Assessing multiple systematic reviews on the same question

Checklists for case control studies, clinical prediction rule, cohort studies, diagnostic studies, economic evaluation, qualitative studies, RCTs and systematic reviews

"CATmaker is a computer-assisted critical appraisal tool, which helps you create Critically Appraised Topics (CATs), for the key articles you encounter about Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Aetiology/Harm and Systematic Reviews of Therapy."

CEBM's worksheets for assessing systematic reviews, diagnostic, prognosis and RCTs