Quick Guide to Practitioners and Researchers

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QUICK GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTITIONERS AND
RESEARCHERS ----- WRITING MEDICAL CONTENT
FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH
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Medical content Writing is an integral component
of clinical research that is essential for
effectively taking research related scientific
communications to the target audience like
medical specialists and healthcare professionals.
Effective and well-structured medical contents
with appropriate research design and reference
support is imperative for every aspiring medical
researcher to publish their clinical research
studies in reputed national and international
medical journals.
Quick Guide For Practitioners and
Researchers Medical content writing in Clinical
Research requires proper academic background in
the field of medical science and specialized
writing skills that needs to be possessed by the
medical researchers and clinicians. The medical
content writer must also possess good
understanding of the clinical perspectives like
patient benefits, safety measures and needs to
present the medical research contents from the
viewpoint of medical or health care
professionals. This medical content writing
quick guide is intended to help the clinical
practitioners and researchers understand the
nuances of clinical research writing that will
enable them to make effective clinical research
paper presentations to their intended targeted
audience.
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• Essential Regulatory documents of Clinical
  Research
• Health care professionals and researchers
  involved in the clinical research must gain
  better knowledge of various essential aspects in
  the preparation of regulatory documents involved
  in the research study. Some of the important
  documents that are essential for conducting and
  presenting clinical research studies include,
• Clinical Research study protocols
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that covers
  all the features of the research study like
  research design, methodologies and the conduct
  and report presentations of the clinical trials
• Clinical and non-clinical summaries and overviews
  relating to the research for the concerned
  regulatory authorities.
• Ethical standard protocols followed in the
  clinical research trials involving humans and
  animals in accordance with the national standards
  laid down by the concerned regulatory
  authorities like ICMRs Ethical Guidelines for
  Biomedical research on human participants
• Narratives concerning safety of patients involved
  in the clinical research
• Documents relating to pharmacovigilance and
  safety updates
• Patient informed consents and safety brochures
  for patients participating in the clinical
  research
• Instructions for Clinical Writing
• The medical writers must have a good
  understanding of the clinical research goals and
  needs to ensure that the research ideas,
  methodologies and the scientific results of the
  clinical research are conveyed precisely in order
  to maximize the impact of medical research
  contents.
• This quick clinical guide for healthcare
  professionals and researchers provides a list of
  diverse documents necessary for conducting a
  well-structured clinical research paper ranging
  from study protocol, research design,
  Investigators brochure to clinical research
  reports.
• The clinical research paper must have following
  the features
• Structured abstract section briefly describing
  the nature and scope of the research, concepts,
  methods adopted and clinical findings
• Appropriate sub-headings indicating the study
  background, research objectives, samples used
  and analytical methods

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• Medical terminologies with universally applicable
  disease and health care related abbreviations
• Relevant Tables and figures providing important
  statistical data to support the research
• Outline of the study and important scientific
  developments related to the research with
  potential impact on patient care and public
  health
• Complete discussion and conclusion section
  involving the usage of authentic medical
  contents with proper terminologies
• Complete Bibliographic section indicating the
  research title, author, journal published and
  research year for the literature references used
  in the paper
• Tables and Figures
• Clinical research writing must include pertinent
  tables with appropriate titles, row and column
  headings with units of measurement and
  statistical measurements properly abbreviated
  and place below the respective column headings.
• Randomized Clinical trial paper writing must
  include essentials information involving
  protocols, assignment of inventions by clearly
  stating that the particular study protocol has
  prior approval from the concerned ethics
  committee of the research institution. The
  research paper must also mention that proper
  written consents relating the study have been
  obtained from the patients participating in the
  clinical research.
• The research writing can have a brief
  acknowledgement section for acknowledging the
  specific scientific and financial assistance and
  the help the concerned researcher received in
  the preparation of manuscripts.
• The discussion section deals with the
  interpretation of the research findings and the
  medical researcher must take due care not to
  repeat information given in the Results section.
  This section can give comparison of new findings
  with the existing results in this topic and must
  also mention any limitations, constraints and
  flaws of the study. Based on the discussion, the
  researcher or healthcare professional must give
  their recommendations that are relevant for the
  topic of the research study.
• Professional medical research help is available
  for health care professionals and researchers
  who have time, resources and writing skills
  constraints. Expert writing service companies
  specializing in the writing of medical contents
  for clinical research studies can offer
  customized service to the need and requirements
  of the medical researchers.

About Author, Dr. Nancy, Editor-in-chief, PEPGRA
Healthcare Pvt Ltd.
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