Correction to: Understanding Plain English Summaries: A Comparison of two Approaches to Improve the Quality of Plain English Summaries in Research
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40900-017-0064-0.].
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Understanding Plain English summaries. A comparison of two approaches to improve the quality of Plain English summaries in research reports
PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY There is a need for the authors of research reports to be able to communicate their work clearly and effectively to readers who are not familiar with the research area. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), along with a number of other funding bodies and journals, require researchers to write short lay summaries, often termed plain English summaries (PESs), to...
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