Making Research Writing Meaningful

Writing a meaningful report

In my job at a busy public hospital I go through many reports sent in together with referrals for patients to be seen. The information contained in these reports determines how timely a patient has access to tertiary care facility. All your hard work is going to be locked up in a single piece of a paper the end of any study – it will either lead to reassurance, appropriate management or sometim...

Making a Meaningful Difference: Learning From People, Practice, and Research

EDITOR'S NOTE This article is adapted from the address Ms. Delahanty delivered as the recipient of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award for 2015. She delivered the address in June 2015 at the Association's 75th Scientific Sessions in Boston, Mass. A webcast of this speech is available for viewing at the ADA website (http://professional.diabetes.org/we...

Making monitoring meaningful

Conservation monitoring in Australia has assumed increasing importance in recent years, as societal pressure to actively manage environmental problems has risen. More resources than ever before are being channelled to the task of documenting environmental change.Yet the field remains crippled by a pervasive lack of rigour in analysing, reporting and responding to the results of data collected. ...

President's page: making imaging meaningful.

Making meaningful inferences about magnitudes.

A study of a sample provides only an estimate of the true (population) value of an outcome statistic. A report of the study therefore usually includes an inference about the true value. Traditionally, a researcher makes an inference by declaring the value of the statistic statistically significant or nonsignificant on the basis of a P value derived from a null-hypothesis test. This approach is ...