Published March 28, 2023
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Recommendations for Writing Clinical Research Manuscripts: From Monofocal to Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
Contributors
Description
Writing a manuscript is not an easy task, and publishing in peer-reviewed journals
might prove difficult if the methodology is not appropriately described and results are
not clearly presented. Fortunately, researchers have tools that can assist in creating a wellwritten
manuscript. For example, reporting guidelines are used by researchers to write
a manuscript. These specify the minimum amount of information necessary for a clear
account of research methods and findings to prevent the common pitfalls that investigators
may experience during manuscript writing. The EQUATOR network manages an important
database (https://www.equator-network.org/ (accessed on 15 December 2022) containing
universal guidelines depending on study design and regardless of study topic [1].
However, for specific topics, such as for intraocular lens (IOL) clinical studies, merely
following reporting guidelines may not be enough to produce a well-written manuscript.
For example, although researchers can follow the CONSORT checklist for reporting the
results of a randomized clinical trial, this checklist is focused on general characteristics;
therefore, important points for a specific topic may go unnoticed by the researcher during
the writing process. To complement these general guidelines, exploring specialized standards
for a particular topic can improve manuscript writing. Regarding IOL clinical studies,
standards for reporting clinical results with monofocal IOLs were coined in 2017 [2], and
recently these have been updated for presbyopia-correcting IOLs, namely enhanced monofocal,
extended depth-of-focus (EDOF), and multifocal IOLs [3]. Furthermore, standards
have been defined for assessing prediction errors in spherical and toric IOL power calculation
methods [4,5]. All these standards should be reviewed together with the universal
reporting guidelines to create a well-written manuscript. In this editorial, we also provide
a checklist (Table 1) that extends and complements the previously described guidelines
and standards.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/143646
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/143646