OBSERVATIONAL STUDY: Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Objectives:
Appraise the validity of quantitative study findings by review of the study design and its implementation. Particular reference should be paid to the potential for chance, bias and confounding to affect results.
Outline the impact of said paper and importance and/or relevance to public health.
II. Instructions:
You are invited to critically appraise a public health paper and submit your written review.
2. Your review will be marked on the basis of the attached mark scheme.
3. Submit your appraisal in the form of a word-processed document using subheadings that respond to the mark scheme: you do not need to rigidly adhere to each subheading / domain.
Paper III :– OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Yusuf S et al. Cardiovascular risk and events in 17 low-, middle- and high-income countries. NEJM 2014; 371: 818-27. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311890