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Vonspacker t1_irre39r wrote

Do you think we should be doing more to address the inaccessibility of information contained within reports of scientific research. I study within the area and am constantly frustrated by the lack of clarity within figures and written sections where it seems easily possible to make yourself more clear at the expense of sounding marginally less academic and abbreviated.

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WorldThrombosisDay t1_irs2mju wrote

I agree with you! In England, we have something called the "plain English campaign," and they will help you write leaflets to keep the language very simple. In academic medicine, many journals now ask for a laymen's abstract, which means that you have to simplify your findings for a lay person. However, having simplification of the figures and tables seems difficult.

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