Introduction
Healthcare practitioners continuously search the literature to provide supporting evidence for decisions and justification for patient-care actions. Multiple citations may be located even after conducting literature searches that incorporate appropriate search techniques. At this point, the searcher must review the information in a time-efficient manner and select the most relevant articles. Many users will read the article abstract to obtain a quick overview and determine whether the entire article should be read. The abstract of an original research manuscript writing article (e.g., clinical trial) published in the biomedical literature is considered a synopsis of the essential principles of the study. The background, purpose, basic methodology, key results, and a general conclusion should be presented within the abstract.
One study reported that 68% of original research abstracts evaluated in one leading medical journal contained discrepancies (i.e., inconsistencies and omissions) between the abstract and the full-text article. The other study reported that 52 of 400 (13%) original research abstracts evaluated in 8 psychology journals were deficient (i.e., contained an inconsistency or omission between the abstract and full text).
Methods
The abstracts of original research articles published in 6 pharmacy specific journals were evaluated. The following criteria were used to select the journals for this project:
(1) the primary focus of pharmacy-related activities,
(2) publish original research,
(3) widely circulated, and
(4) represent national pharmacy organizations and advocate clinical pharmacy practice.
Each abstract also was evaluated for consistency with "Instructions for Authors" specific for each journal and assessed for placement of the text within the body of structured abstracts consistent with the order in the scientific original research article. After each abstract was evaluated, it was classified as deficient if any omission, quantitative and qualitative inaccuracy, inconsistency in following the "Instructions for Authors" for the respective journal, or discrepancy between the placement of information in the full-text article a structured abstract occurred.
Summary
The results of this study document that omissions and discrepancies are present in abstracts for original research articles published in the selected pharmacy journals. Readers of the biomedical and pharmacy literature should be aware of abstract inaccuracies while conducting literature searches and reading research article abstracts. In addition, educators need to emphasize the importance of reading the full-text article in the learning process. Furthermore, both authors and peer reviewers should scrutinize the abstract to ensure that data in the abstract accurately represent the article's content. Also, revision of the "Instructions for Authors," including more specific guidelines addressing these issues, may present a possible solution for discrepancies found in abstracts.
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