Animal Care Education
Grade de evidências

Evidence grid for a decision

Organise the sources that support, contradict or qualify a decision, with the level of access to each.

One row per source. Record what was actually read: full text, abstract or metadata only. Do not count republications from the same origin as independent sources.

Decision under analysis

  1. State the decision as an answerable question

Sources

  1. Source 1: reference, type, year, access (full/abstract/metadata), what it supports

  2. Source 2: reference, type, year, access, what it supports

  3. Source 3: reference, type, year, access, what it supports

  4. Has any source been retracted or corrected?

    • Checked on Crossref/PubMed
    • No retraction found

Synthesis

  1. Where the sources agree, where they diverge and why

  2. Confidence in the decision

    HighModerateLow

Quando parar e pedir ajuda

  • A single source for a relevant claim must be declared as such.