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Understanding Health Research

UnderstandingHealthResearch.org is a tool for understanding and evaluating health research papers.

Research units at the University of Glasgow publish the website. A group of researchers from universities in the United Kingdom developed the tool.

Tips for use:
Review a study is an interactive process for reviewing a research paper.
– The website recommends starting with How to read a scientific paper as an introduction to research studies.
– At any point during the interactive review process scroll to Go to Summary to add notes and save a summary of your review as a PDF file.

Reviewed October 2025