A GUIDE TO CLINICAL RESEARCH WRITING ON PUBLIC HEALTH FOR CLINICAL RESEARCHERS - PUBRICA
                     A GUIDE TO CLINICAL  
RESEARCH WRITING 
ON  PUBLIC HEALTH 
FOR  CLINICAL 
RESEARCHERS
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, 
Pubrica  Group: www.pubrica.com
Email: [email protected]
Today's Discussion
Outline In Brief
Public Health
Clinical Research Writing  
Writing a Good Research 
Article  Future Scopes
In Brief
Clinical research writing is a specialized field requiring the  
expertise of Scientific Medical Writing who in addition to providing 
 medical writing help. Scientific medical writing companies are  
legitimate services that researchers and clinicians need to avail to 
 contribute positively to scientific research.
Public  
Health
Public Health is defined by WHOas “the art and science of 
 preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health  
through the organized efforts of society”.
Public health focuses on the entire spectrum of health and 
 wellbeing, not only the eradication of particular diseases.
Clinical  Clinical research is the backbone of public health.
Researc Several m edical writing services and scientific medical 
h   writing companies have come into being to provide the  
much-needed expertise in r egulatory medical writing 
Writing and  medical m anuscript writing.
Scientific medical writing services do exactly this and 
 provide appropriate medical writing help.
Professional medical writing solutions are legitimate and  
well accepted in the field of scientific medical writing by the 
 medical fraternity.
It is ethical to use scientific medical writing services for 
 c linical research writing.
Writing a 
 Good  There are two aspects to writing a good research article -
Content and format.
Researc
h  Article Content should be plagiarism free, up to date, relevant, 
 crisp, and clear.
The format should follow Journal instruction for authors as 
 far as possible.
Research articles that conform to the Journal requirements 
 are more likely to be taken as it saves time, energy, and  
money for the publishers.
Tit le
A good title for a research article should be concise, precise, 
 and informative.
It should also include keywords that would show up during a
digital search.
Abstract An abstract helps a reader decide whether he/she wants to 
 continue reading the entire article.
The abstract should always be written after writing the 
 entire article.
A structured abstract consisting of 
 Objectives
Methodology  
Results  
Conclusions
Introduction
A good introduction should have the scientific background 
 and provide the build-up to the study.
It should begin by explaining how the issue under study is of 
 public health interest.
It should provide a good summary of all scientific literature
that is relevant to the current research.
It should finally define the study objectives clearly and 
 provide justification for the research project.
Method
s
The s tudy methodology should be described with 
respect  to the study setting, the participants, the sample 
size and  distribution, the inclusion and exclusion 
criteria, etc.
Ethical issues, including regulatory approvals and 
 consent, should be clearly defined.
Information provided should be accurate, 
complete, and
concise.
Result
s
Results should correlate with the findings mentioned under  
methodology and should be summarised in the form of tables, 
 graphs, and figures as far as possible.
Long texts and jargon should be avoided by reporting results 
 objectively and honestly.
Text is used only for subjective evaluation of the results. 
 Patient demographic information is initially summarised,
followed by primary outcomes followed by secondary 
outcomes.
Discussion
This section discusses the meaning of the study outcomes and 
 compares them with the outcomes of other similar studies.
The structure of this section includes the presentation of the  
primary findings followed by comparison with previous studies 
 and assessing the strengths and limitations of the study.
Grey areas of the study are highlighted mentioning requirement 
 for further research and suggest a methodology for the 
same.
Conclusions
This section is optional, and content should be 
 supported by the study findings.
Acknowledgements
Source of funding and any relevant conflict of interest 
 needs to be mentioned in this section.
It also acknowledges someone with a significant 
 contribution to the study but who cannot be  
mentioned as an author.
Future 
Scopes
Researchers should extensively avail the expertise of  
professional medical writers provided by medical writing
 companies to improve the quality, standardize the 
format  of research article writing and improve chances of 
 acceptance by the Journal.
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