
SYNTHESIS RESOURCES
Plain language summary resources
Barnes, A & Patrick, S. (2019). Lay summaries of clinical study results: An overview. Pharmaceutical Medicine, 33, 261-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-019-00285-0
Bredbenner, K. & Simon, S. (2019. Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphical abstracts and published abstracts. PLoS ONE, 14 (11), e0224697. https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224697
Cochrane Norway (2016). How to write a plain language summary of a Chochrane intervention review: Checklist. Retrieve from https://www.cochrane.no/sites/cochrane.no/files/uploads/checking_a_cochrane_pls_15th_june_2018.pdf
Gainey, K. M., O’Keefe, M., Traeger, A. C., Muscat, D. M., Williams, C. M., McCaffrey, K. J., & Kamper, S. J. (2021). What instructions are available to health researchers for writing lay summaries? A scoping review. medRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.09.21258450
Rosenberg, A., Baronikova, S., Feighery, L, Gattrell, W., Olsen, R. E., Watson, A., Koder, T. & Winchester, C. (2021). Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications. Current Medical Research and Opinion, https://doi.org/10.1080/03007995.2021.1971185
Manojlovich, M., Squires, J.E., Davies, B., & Graham, I. D. (2015). Hiding in plain sight: Communication theory in implementation science. Implementation Science, 10:58, http://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0244-y
Penlington, M., Silverman, H., Vasudevan, A., & Pavithran, P. (2020). Plain language summaries of clinical trial results: A preliminary study to assess availability of easy-to-understand summaries and approaches to improving public engagement. Pharmaceutical Medicine, 34(6). 401-406, http://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-020-00359-4
Smith, R. (2021). Improving and spreading plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications. Current Medical Research and Opinion. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007995.2021.1974824
Stroll, M., Kerwer, M., Lieb, K., & Chasiotis, A. (2021). [Preprint] Plain language summaries: A systematic review of theory, guidelines, and empirical research.