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Writing narrative style literature reviews - Volume 24, Issue

Reviews provide a synthesis of published literature on a topic and describe its current state-of-art. Reviews in clinical research are thus useful when designing studies or developing practice guidelines. The two standard types of reviews are (a)…

Intelligent use of artificial intelligence for systematic reviews of medical devices - Volume 28, Issue

Systematic literature reviews are an essential component of the medical device clinical evaluation process. The EU Medical Device Regulation requirement for regularly updated systematic literature searches will increase the burden on the medical…

A survey on current use of software tools for systematic literature reviews - Volume 32, Issue

Adoption of the EU Medical Devices Regulations and In Vitro Diagnostics Regulations has led to increased demand for systematic literature reviews. This article reports on a survey investigating the current use of software platforms and tools by…

Quality control: getting the best out of your review - Volume 21, Issue

In medical writing, quality control (QC) means ensuring that a document's content, style, and format are of high quality. This does not just ‘happen’ but is the result of a systemic QC review. These reviews are critical because mistakes can cause…

In the Bookstores - Volume 23, Issue

An Introduction to Systematic Reviews by David Gough, Sandy Oliver, and James Thomas; SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-849-20181-0. 26.99 GBP. 304 pages.

Global HTA: Past, present, and future - Volume 30, Issue

Health technology assessment (HTA) is a relatively recent innovation that has changed the way decisions are made in healthcare. It is a multidisciplinary process that requires different skill sets and collaboration among various disciplines and…

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Instructions for Authors SCOPE Medical Writing, the official journal of EMWA (the European Medical Writers Association), is a quarterly journal that aims to educate, inform, and entertain medical writers. Medical Writing publishes themed issues…

A medical writer's guide to meta-analysis - Volume 25, Issue

Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for summarising the results of multiple studies in a quantitative manner. It should not be confused with a systematic review, though in practice the two are often found together. The main pitfalls with…

Communicating the findings of health technology assessments: Considering uncertainty - Volume 30, Issue

Uncertainty is an unavoidable problem when analysing health technology assessment results, which can make decision making difficult. Whilst we have ways of presenting uncertainty for individual outcomes in a systematic review, we do not have a…

Study design made easy - Volume 25, Issue

Analysis of statistical data is an important part of any medical writer’s skill set, especially those professionals working in publication and regulatory areas. Under - standing the various study designs is key to a thorough understanding of study…

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