Checklists

Primary studies

• RoB 2: tool to assess risk of bias in randomized trials***
• ROBINS-I: tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions***
• QUADAS-2: tool to assess risk of bias and applicability of primary diagnostic accuracy studies*
• CASP Checklist for appraising a qualitative study**

Systematic reviews

• ROBIS: tool for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews***
• AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess systematic reviews*
• Tool to assess methodological limitations of qualitative evidence synthesis****
• Checklist for qualitative evidence syntheses (QES) and associated guidance

Health Economics and Ethics

• Checklist for assessing the quality of trialbased health economic studies
• Checklist for assessing the quality of health economic modelling studies
• Ethical aspects of health care interventions. A guideline to identifying relevant ethical aspects
• Framework for systematic identification of ethical aspects of healthcare technologies: the SBU approach (International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 31, Issue 3, 2015)

* SBU uses a version translated  to Swedish.
** SBU does not use CASP. Instead a checklist developed by SBU is used, only available in Swedish.
*** SBU uses a version translated to Swedish, with a question added regarding conflict of interest.
**** Checklist developed by SBU based on Tong et al, 2012.