HS300

Professor Carrion

Article Critique

Read the article Sharwood L, Use of caffeinated substances and risk of crashes in long distance drivers of
commercial vehicles: case-control study BMJ 2013; 346: 1-7

1. What kind of study was this?

2. Assess the study methods: was the appropriate measure of association for this type of study
selected?

3. What were the major study findings?

4. Assess for selection and information bias. List all forms of bias identified

5. What confounders did the investigators account for in their analysis?

6. Can you think of other confounders that were not accounted for in the study?

7. Based on what we have learned about internal validity, are the study findings valid? Why?

8. If valid, to which population may this study’s findings be extrapolated?