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Discussion
Methods Procedures
Objectives of the Research
Charts/Graphs/Pictures
The discussion section is used to summarize the
main findings from your study, and to interpret
your results relative to current findings in the
literature.
Lights! Camera! Graphs! Photos! Lurid Data!
Yow! You get the idea. Here is where you put
your eyeball grabbing data, amazing graphs, and
stupendous radiology and photos. Just dont get
all carried away with the three-D stuff and the
retina searing color combinations. Provide
your information in a clear, informative, and
yes, entertaining fashion. Remember to number
all Tables and Figures, so that you can easily
refer to them in the Results section.
Specify the specific aims for your study.
Significance/Background
Using the literature, establish any previous work
related to your research question. This section
should describe the gap(s) in the literature, and
how your specific aims will attempt to address
the gap.
Analyses
Use this section to provide a brief description
of the statistical tests used, your sample size
justification (if pertinent to your study), and
your criterion for significance (e.g., P lt 0.05).
Conclusions Implications
The big finish, where you get to blow your
audience away with your final, pithy comment.
This should be brief, three sentences tops. If
youre at a loss for words, you can either do a
combined Discussion/Conclusions section, or just
do a conclusions section that reiterates the
importance of your study.
Results
Design
What research design was used to address your
specific aims? Examples include Case series,
case-control, retrospective cohort,
cross-sectional, prospective cohort, randomized
controlled trial HEY!! - Not only is a
retrospective chart review not a study design,
its redundantly redundant. Its probably really
a case series or retrospective cohort study, but
if in doubt, please check with your co-authors,
or contact the Research Department.
Heres where you provide some detail to all of
the cool tables and figures that you have
provided. Make sure that the reader is very
aware of what you consider to be the major
findings from your study. This is also a place
to remark upon some of the minor findings that
did not make their way into any of your tables
and figures. HEY!! - Dont just regurgitate the
same information that is already present in your
tables and figures. Pick out specific pieces of
information upon which you would like your reader
to focus.
References