Ann Intern Med. 1987 Apr;106(4):598-604.
Medical journals are a principal source of new knowledge for clinicians. Unfortunately, articles containing valid and valuable information are often buried among others of less value. Innovations are needed to assist clinicians in finding articles that are both scientifically sound and applicable to their practices. An easily implemented, although partial, solution is for authors of articles that have clinical implications to structure their abstracts so that key aspects of purpose, methods, and results are reported with a partly controlled vocabulary and in a standardized format. This would assist clinical readers to select appropriate articles more quickly, allow more precise computerized literature searches, and facilitate peer review before publication.
医学期刊是临床医生获取新知识的主要来源。不幸的是，包含有效且有价值信息的文章常常埋没于其他价值较低的文章之中。需要创新手段来帮助临床医生找到既科学合理又适用于其临床实践的文章。一个虽不全面但易于实施的解决办法是，对于有临床意义的文章，作者应构建其摘要，以便用部分受控词汇并以标准化格式报告目的、方法和结果的关键方面。这将有助于临床读者更快地选择合适的文章，实现更精确的计算机化文献检索，并便于在发表前进行同行评审。
