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Patients at the Heart of the Scientific Dialogue: An Industry Perspective

Oncology and Therapy, 2023
Plain Language Summary Pharmaceutical companies need to regularly communicate to patients all essential information about their medicines, especially data from the research studies that were conducted to evaluate the medicine’s benefits and risks.
Dany Habr, Brittany Wolf Gianares, Kristine W. Schuler, Dheepa Chari   +3 more
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Once-nightly sodium oxybate (FT218) improved symptoms of disrupted nighttime sleep in people with narcolepsy: a plain language summary

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2023
What is this summary about? This is a plain language summary of a published article in the journal CNS Drugs. Narcolepsy is a rare sleep condition.
Thomas Roth, Michael J Thorpy, Clete A Kushida, Matthew Horsnell, Jennifer Gudeman   +4 more
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Assessing and presenting summaries of evidence in Cochrane Reviews [PDF]

, 2013
Cochrane Reviews are intended to help providers, practitioners and patients make informed decisions about health care. The goal of the Cochrane Applicability and Recommendation Methods Group (ARMG) is to develop approaches, strategies and guidance that ...
Akl, Elie A., Dahm, Philipp, Glasziou, Paul, Guyatt, Gordon, Langendam, Miranda W., Schünemann, Holger J.   +5 more
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Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphical abstracts and published abstracts.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundJournals are trying to make their papers more accessible by creating a variety of research summaries including graphical abstracts, video abstracts, and plain language summaries.
Kate Bredbenner, Sanford M Simon
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54770 A Comprehensive Online Platform for Plain Language Clinical Trial Result Summary Development

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
IMPACT: This work will impact participants of clinical trials by better informing them of their trial’s results and their important role within the clinical research process.
Christian Reyes
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Lessons Learned from Developing Plain Language Summaries of Research Studies

Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2021
Background: Plain language translation may facilitate the public's ability to understand and use results of scientific research. Brief description of activity: This article describes the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) approach to ...
Maureen Maurer, Joanna E. Siegel, Kirsten B. Firminger, Jane Lowers, Tania Dutta, Jane S. Chang   +5 more
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A Novel String Distance Function based on Most Frequent K Characters [PDF]

, 2014
This study aims to publish a novel similarity metric to increase the speed of comparison operations. Also the new metric is suitable for distance-based operations among strings.
Altun, Oguz, Ayan, Uğur, Mert, Cihan, Seker, Sadi Evren   +3 more
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Beyond symptomatic diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury

Concussion, 2023
Plain language summary It is commonly assumed that there is no brain injury if there are no noticeable symptoms following a head impact.
Alice Lux Fawzi, Christian Franck
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Plain language summary: clinical trial of BI 1015550 as a potential treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2022
What is this summary about? This plain language summary describes the main findings from a trial in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (also called IPF) that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Luca Richeldi, Arata Azuma, Vincent Cottin, Christian Hesslinger, Susanne Stowasser, Claudia Valenzuela, Marlies S Wijsenbeek, Donald F Zoz, Florian Voss, Toby M Maher   +9 more
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Weight loss and outcomes in subjects with progressive pulmonary fibrosis: data from the INBUILD trial

Respiratory Research, 2023
Plain language summary Patients with worsening fibrosis (scarring) of the lungs may lose weight. This study suggests that the course of disease may be worse in patients who lose weight. Measures to prevent weight loss may be needed in these patients.
Michael Kreuter, Elisabeth Bendstrup, Stéphane Jouneau, Toby M. Maher, Yoshikazu Inoue, Corinna Miede, Dirk Lievens, Bruno Crestani   +7 more
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