How much do you need: a randomised experiment of whether readers can understand the key messages from summaries of Cochrane Reviews without reading the full review

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 444-449

  Maguire, Lisa K ^a   Clarke, Mike ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic communication; computer mediated communication; dissemination; information retrieval; systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPREHENSION; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRELAND; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; RANDOMIZATION; READING; STAFF; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEAT; HOUSEHOLD; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LITERATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; IRELAND; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; READING; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84921517148     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: 17581095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076814546710     Document Type: Article

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