**Feedback** This tool is under continual development. Please continue to check back for updates and refinements. We are happy to receive any suggestions or feedback. Please submit your comments to: stephanie.hendren@duke.edu. ---------- **Instructions for Use** 1. Download the spreadsheet in order to utilize all its features. 2. The spreadsheet is organized alphabetically by tool name. 3. Use the drop-down option on column F to select the specific study design you are interested in. You can select multiple study designs at a time and select "okay" in order to filter the contents of the spreadsheet. 4. Please see our copyright notice below. You may make changes to suit your personal use but any distributed copy needs proper attribution to this project. ---------- **Risk of Bias vs Quality Assessment vs Critical Appraisal** - RoB - Evaluates the risk of bias inherent in the methodology of the study. - Quality Assessment - Used interchangeably with RoB, QA tools evaluate the quality of the methodology of the study. - Critical Appraisal - For the purposes of our tool repository, we considered anything that was designed to be used by clinicians or students to evaluate the quality of a article for patient care to be a CA tool. ---------- Quality Assessment and Risk of Bias Tool Repository © 2021 by Leila Ledbetter and Stephanie Hendren is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ---------- [1]: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3dtcbXKNbDM5IJU