With respect to specific question facing you, all information is either correct, valid, or it is not. Your task is to separate the valid from the invalid. The valid information is factual and can be incorporated into your clinical decision making process. We have sought to make a strong case for looking beyond some of the quicker and easier methods of gathering information and to examine the clinical veterinary medical literature yourself. Up to this point the focus has been on critical questions to ask when evaluating an article that reports the results of clinical study with respect to the specific question at hand.
Review articles are often broader and report the results of several previously published studies.
The critical questions that need to be asked when evaluating review articles are slightly different. Assessing the validity and applicability of review articles in the clinical veterinary medical literature. The comprehensiveness of the studies reviewed in the article 3. C. Eight questions to ask when evaluating the validity and applicability of an article that reviews an area of clinical veterinary medicine. If you need to know about survivability of horses with a given condition but a review evaluates short term response to therapy, your time may be better spent reading something else.