Podsada Kimberly, Jones Tiffany N, Ryan Joanne C
From UCSD Comprehensive Breast Health Center, La Jolla California.
OHC/US Oncology, Cincinnati, Ohio.
J Adv Pract Oncol. 2025 Jun 25:1-16. doi: 10.6004/jadpro.2025.16.7.20.
Understanding clinical information can be challenging for patients, their caregivers, and other lay audiences because of complex scientific concepts, interventions, procedures and/or evaluated outcomes. It is also challenging for health-care providers to effectively communicate such medical research to patients, which is essential for patients' informed involvement in shared decision-making (SDM). Advanced practice providers (APPs) are on the frontlines of care, often providing detailed and extensive education for patients in and outside of clinical trials. In recent years, scientific researchers, particularly those involved in clinical trial research, have been increasingly using plain language summaries (PLS) to summarize journal publications and conference abstracts in easy-to-read nontechnical language while providing key findings and implications. In this review article, we aim to provide an overview of PLS and show by using published examples, how such communication tools may assist APPs to communicate medical research effectively to patients. This evolving form of scientific communication may be useful to APPs, not only for translating the findings of clinical trials and other health-care research to patients and their caregivers, but also facilitate informed SDM, help them keep up to date on the latest clinical research, and share research perspectives with their care teams.
对于患者、其护理人员及其他普通受众而言，理解临床信息颇具挑战性，这是因为其中涉及复杂的科学概念、干预措施、程序及/或评估结果。对医疗服务提供者来说，要将此类医学研究有效地传达给患者也并非易事，而这对于患者明智地参与共同决策（SDM）至关重要。高级执业提供者（APP）处于护理的前沿，常常在临床试验内外为患者提供详细而全面的教育。近年来，科研人员，尤其是那些参与临床试验研究的人员，越来越多地使用通俗易懂的总结（PLS），用易于理解的非专业语言概括期刊出版物和会议摘要，同时呈现关键发现及影响。在这篇综述文章中，我们旨在概述通俗易懂的总结，并通过已发表的实例展示此类交流工具如何帮助高级执业提供者有效地向患者传达医学研究。这种不断发展的科学交流形式可能对高级执业提供者有用，不仅有助于将临床试验及其他医疗研究的结果翻译给患者及其护理人员，还能促进明智的共同决策，帮助他们了解最新的临床研究，并与护理团队分享研究观点。
