An article published in Current Medical Research and Opinion has provided new guidance and opinion on plain language summaries (PLS) of company-sponsored medical research. Developed by the ISMPP PLS Perspectives Working Group, the article presents perspectives of 29 stakeholders from diverse professional sectors involved in developing, publishing, reading or funding PLS.
The article identifies 10 key issues that need to be addressed to improve PLS so that more publications have these valuable summaries.
We hope that the key insights from this study will inform industry-wide guidelines on PLS and accelerate the generation of these important publications to facilitate sharing of medical research to broad audiences.
Dawn Lobban, Jason Gardner & Robert Matheison behalf of the ISMPP PLS
Perspectives Working Group