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Ng KH, Peh WC

Singapore Med J, 2009 May;50(5):458-60; quiz 461.

PMID: 19495512

The discussion section comprises the last component in the IMRAD system. The purpose of this section is to provide the interpretation of the results obtained, explain the implications of the findings, state study limitations and make suggestions for future research. This is a critical part of the scientific paper, as it places the particular study within the broader context of how the research contributes to improving diagnosis, treatment or patient care.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical*

Fulltext Presenting the statistical results

Ng KH, Peh WC

Singapore Med J, 2009 Jan;50(1):11-4.

PMID: 19224078

Statistical methods are reported in a scientific paper to summarise the data that has been collected for a study and to enable its analysis. These methods should be described with enough detail to allow a knowledgeable reader who has access to the original data to verify the reported results. This article provides basic guidelines to aid authors in reporting the statistical aspects of the results of their studies clearly and accurately.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical*

Fulltext Gender bias in clinical case reports: A cross-sectional study of the "big five" medical journals

Allotey P, Allotey-Reidpath C, Reidpath DD

PLoS One, 2017;12(5):e0177386.

PMID: 28493948 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177386

BACKGROUND: Gender bias in medical journals can affect the science and the benefit to patients. It has never been investigated in clinical case reports. The oversight is important because of the role clinical case reports play in hypothesis generation and medical education. We investigated contemporary gender bias in case reports for the highest ranked journals in general and internal medicine.

METHODS: PubMed case reports data from 2011 to 2016 were extracted for the Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. The gender of the patients were identified and a text analysis of the Medical Subject Headings conducted.

RESULTS: A total of 2,742 case reports were downloaded and 2,582 (95.6%) reports contributed to the final analysis. A pooled analysis showed a statistically significant gender bias against female case reports (0.45; 95%CI: 0.43-0.47). The Annals of Internal Medicine was the only journal with a point estimate (non significant) in the direction of a bias against male patients. The text analysis identified no substantive difference in the focus of the case reports and no obvious explanation for the bias.

CONCLUSION: Gender bias, previously identified in clinical research and in clinical authorship, extends into the patients presented in clinical case reports. Whether it is driven by authors or editors is not clear, but it likely contributes to and supports an overall male bias of clinical medicine.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical*

Fulltext Duplicate publication: a joint statement from the Singapore Medical Journal and the Medical Journal of Malaysia

Peh WC, Arokiasamy JT

Singapore Med J, 2007 Dec;48(12):1067-8.

PMID: 18043832 MyJurnal

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical/standards*

Fulltext Biomedical and health sciences publication productivity from Malaysia

Zainal H, Zainab AN

Health Info Libr J, 2011 Sep;28(3):216-25.

PMID: 21831221 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00943.x

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine Malaysian contributions in the field of biomedical and health sciences.
METHODS: In this study, 3697 publications affiliated to Malaysian addresses from the sci database between 1990 and 2005 were sampled. This study also explored publication productivity trends, authorship and collaboration pattern, core journals used, and citations obtained.
RESULTS: Main contributions were journal articles (73.3%). Most authors (63.7%) contributed only one article and 16.1% produced over 30-68 publications. Multi-authored works were the norm. The productive authors were named either first or second in publications. There were active collaborations with authors from Asia-Pacific countries (35%) and Europe (30%). The majority of publications were contributed by institutions of higher learning (87%). Core journals used follow quite close to Bradford's zonal ratios of 44:152:581. The active research areas were identified. About 71.3% of publications received citations especially those published from 1995 to 1999.
CONCLUSION: This study helped librarians identify active researchers, active research areas and journals relevant to biomedical and health sciences researchers and useful when producing reports to university management and planning medical collection policies and deciding on journal subscriptions and cancellations.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical*

Fulltext Postal surveys: a review of articles published in the Medical Journal of Malaysia between 1991-2000

Yeap JS, Hon SK, Yeap JK

Med J Malaysia, 2002 Mar;57(1):31-5.

PMID: 14569715

Postal surveys are becoming an increasingly popular method of conducting research in Malaysia. However, the response rates from these surveys have not been well studied. All postal surveys published in the Medical Journal of Malaysia between 1991-2000 were therefore reviewed to provide an overview of the response rates that may be expected, and to assess if this is a valid method of conducting research here. The response rates of postal surveys ranged from 30-87.5%. Seven of 13 postal surveys (54%) had a response rate of less than 50% and only 2 of 13 (15.4%) had a response rate of more than 70%, raising doubts on the use of postal surveys as a research tool.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical*

Fulltext ICDTag: a prototype for a web-based system for organizing physician-written blog posts using a hybrid taxonomy-folksonomy approach

Batch Y, Yusof MM, Noah SA

J Med Internet Res, 2013;15(2):e41.

PMID: 23470419 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2353

Medical blogs have emerged as new media, extending to a wider range of medical audiences, including health professionals and patients to share health-related information. However, extraction of quality health-related information from medical blogs is challenging primarily because these blogs lack systematic methods to organize their posts. Medical blogs can be categorized according to their author into (1) physician-written blogs, (2) nurse-written blogs, and (3) patient-written blogs. This study focuses on how to organize physician-written blog posts that discuss disease-related issues and how to extract quality information from these posts.

Matched MeSH terms: Journalism, Medical

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