title: [Structured abstracting of scientific medical publications].
abstract: Abstracts play an important role in medical literature as the carriers of synthetic information. Their significance grows as computerized data bases are in use in which whole information should comprise no more than 250 words. Critical appraisal the abstracts' standard resulted in a proposal for data presentation divided into significant parts (structured abstracts). The abstract of an original clinical trial should contain description of the objective, design, setting, patients, intervention, main outcome measures, results and conclusions. The abstract of the review article should provide information about the purpose, data identification, study selection, data extraction, results of data synthesis and conclusions. This form obliges the authors to precise, logical formulation draws out the essential aspects of the work, facilitates literature review, and critical appraisal.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej i Naczyń AM w Bydgoszczy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dabrowiecki
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Malukiewicz-Wiśniewska
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
vernacular_title: Streszczenia strukturalne naukowych publikacji medycznych.