Table 1.

Scale for rating individual studies

Relevance	Newsworthiness
7 Directly and highly relevant	7 Useful information; most practitioners in my specialty definitely don’t know this
6 Definitely relevant	6 Useful information; most practitioners in my specialty probably don’t know this
5 Probably relevant	5 Useful information; most practitioners in my specialty possibly don’t know this
4 Possibly relevant; likely of indirect or peripheral relevance at best	4 Useful information; most practitioners in my specialty possibly already know this
3 Possibly not relevant	3 Useful information; most practitioners in my specialty probably already know this
2 Probably not relevant: content only remotely related	2 It probably doesn’t matter whether they know this or not
1 Definitely not relevant: completely unrelated content area	1 Not of direct clinical interest

Source: McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) system, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University (http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/more/AboutMORE.htm).