Transcript Title: Authors: Objectives of the Research Methods & Procedures Charts/Graphs/Pictures Lights! Camera! Graphs! Photos! Lurid Data! Yow! Specify the specific aims for your study. You get the.

Title:
Authors:
Objectives of the Research
Methods & Procedures
Charts/Graphs/Pictures
Lights! Camera! Graphs! Photos! Lurid Data! Yow!
Specify the specific aims for your study.
You get the idea. Here is where you put your eyeball grabbing data,
amazing graphs, and stupendous radiology and photos. Just don’t
get all carried away with the three-D stuff and the retina searing
color combinations.
The discussion section is used to summarize the main findings from
your study, and to interpret your results relative to current findings in
the literature.
Provide your information in a clear, informative, and yes, entertaining
fashion.
Significance/Background
Using the literature, establish any previous work related to your
research question. This section should describe the gap(s) in the
literature, and how your specific aims will attempt to address the gap.
Discussion
Analyses
Remember to number all Tables and Figures, so that you can easily
refer to them in the Results section.
Use this section to provide a brief description of the statistical tests
used, your sample size justification (if pertinent to your study), and
your criterion for significance (e.g., P < 0.05).
Conclusions & Implications
The big finish, where you get to blow your audience away with your
final, pithy comment. This should be brief, three sentences tops. If
you’re at a loss for words, you can either do a combined
Discussion/Conclusions section, or just do a conclusions section
that reiterates the importance of your study.
Design
What research design was used to address your specific aims?
Examples include:
Case series, case-control, retrospective cohort, cross-sectional,
prospective cohort, randomized controlled trial
HEY!! - Not only is a retrospective chart review not a study design,
it’s redundantly redundant. It’s probably really a case series or
retrospective cohort study, but if in doubt, please check with your coauthors, or contact the Research Department.
Results
Here’s where you provide some detail to all of the cool tables and
figures that you have provided.
Make sure that the reader is very aware of what you consider to be
the major findings from your study. This is also a place to remark
upon some of the minor findings that did not make their way into any
of your tables and figures.
HEY!! - Don’t just regurgitate the same information that is already
present in your tables and figures. Pick out specific pieces of
information upon which you would like your reader to focus.
References