Structured Abstract

 Structured Abstract: An essential tool for medical researchers

It covers:

Main headings: Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions

Research Question: It should be crystal clear as to what you wish to demonstrate/purpose of your research

What made your program a success?

Which form of teaching results in students searching effectively

Which information resources are used the most?

Objectives:

To demonstrate how this program was a success.

To determine if teaching MEDLINE in the class room teaching resulted in improved search skill.

To measure electronic resources usage at the campus increased during 2020 as a means for predicting future use

Methods/Design: Documenting your research steps

Prospective cohort study

Randomized controlled trial

Series of three focus groups 

Settings: 

Settings headings might be followed by the following sample statements:

A small library with one librarian and two technicians serving 400-bed hospital

A small research library that serves an MRI research facility owned by a health care corporation

An academic health sciences library serving a school of medicine, a college of nursing, and two allied sciences programs

Population:

First year medical students with no previous formal MEDLINE training

Third year internal medicine residents

All users of an academic health sciences library

Physicians and research scientists

Intervention: 

A 30-60 minute interview in the faculty members' offices

A  120 minute in-depth MEDLINE training session for the study group whereas the controlled group received only a 15-minutes overview session

The heading Exposure also has a specific research design meaning.

Some examples are:

Access to information resources during the 2002-2003 period

One 60-minutes required training session on MEDLINE search strategies

Teamwork training lasting two days for all managers

Results: Reporting your research

What you have discovered?

Source: MLA Publications