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Originally Posted by Muffin2
get lost.
i'm not about to write a full critical appraisal of the paper. as a student nurse i imagine you've never had to do this because you are obviously unaware of the process and how long it takes to critically appraise a paper. if you want an idea, i had to do one as a piece of coursework, we were given 6 weeks and it was worth 40% of the overall module mark.
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Gosh I think you owe Varied A an apology...That is such a mean thing to say! I think none of us seem to know enough about the MMR story to comment authoritatively (I can also only repeat the general comments that I got from reading Nature's News & Views and the like).
And in this case, critically appraising a paper takes a long time, because any one of us would have to do an awful lot of background reading to get to grips with the facts. If one is, however, an expert in a field, it is quite easy to critically appraise a paper. I can read a paper from the field of my PhD research in an hour and comment on it. So what you're really saying is that you don't know much about the MMR story either and would need 6 weeks to research it...To critically appraise a paper is not really a long "process" if one knows the stuff. In fact my supervisor could look at a paper, absorb it and within about 5 min summarise it and critique it (always correctly...)!