title: Evaluating the medical literature. Part I: Abstract, introduction, methods.
abstract: In this installment on critical evaluation of medical literature, we have discussed the Abstract, Introduction, and Methods sections. A great deal of information is placed in the methodology section of any paper. To critically evaluate a research publication, one must evaluate the methodology, for evaluation of the results of an investigation is meaningless if the methodology is unsound.
mesh_terms: D012106:Research; D014956:Writing / Q000379:methods*