Start with a bulleted outline and fill in the paragraphs one at a time. You can do it!
- Title and Abstract
- Introduction – Why did you start?
- Problem Description
- Nature and significance of the local problem
- Available Knowledge
- Summary of what is currently known about the problem, including relevant previous studies
- Rationale
- Informal or formal frameworks, models, concepts, and/or theories used to explain the problem, any reasons or assumptions that were used to develop the intervention(s), and reasons why the intervention(s) was expected to work
- Specific Aims
- Purpose of the project and of this report
- Problem Description
- Methods – What did you do?
- Context
- Contextual elements considered important at the outset of introducing the intervention(s)
- Intervention(s)
- Description of the intervention(s) in sufficient detail that others could reproduce it
- Specifics of the team involved in the work
- Study of the Intervention(s)
- Approach chosen for assessing the impact of the intervention(s)
- Approach used to establish whether the observed outcomes were due to the intervention(s)
- Measures
- Measures chosen for studying processes and outcomes of the intervention(s), including rationale for choosing them, their operational definitions, and their validity and reliability
- Description of the approach to the ongoing assessment of contextual elements that contributed to the success, failure, efficiency, and cost
- Methods employed for assessing completeness and accuracy of data
- Analysis
- Qualitative and quantitative methods used to draw inferences from the data
- Methods for understanding variation within the data, including the effects of time as a variable
- Ethical Considerations
- Ethical aspects of implementing and studying the intervention(s) and how they were addressed, including, but not limited to, formal ethics review and potential conflict(s) of interest
- Context
- Results – What did you find?
- Results
- Initial steps of the intervention(s) and their evolution over time (e.g., time-line diagram, flow chart, or table), including modifications made to the intervention during the project
- Details of the process measures and outcome
- Contextual elements that interacted with the intervention(s)
- Observed associations between outcomes, interventions, and relevant contextual elements
- Unintended consequences such as unexpected benefits, problems, failures, or costs associated with the intervention(s).
- Details about missing data
- Results
- Discussion – What does it mean?
- Summary
- Key findings, including relevance to the rationale and specific aims
- Particular strengths of the project
- Interpretation
- Nature of the association between the intervention(s) and the outcomes
- Comparison of results with findings from other publications
- Impact of the project on people and systems
- Reasons for any differences between observed and anticipated outcomes, including the influence of context
- Costs and strategic trade-offs, including opportunity costs
- Limitations
- Limits to the generalizability of the work
- Factors that might have limited internal validity such as confounding, bias, or imprecision in the design, methods, measurement, or analysis
- Efforts made to minimize and adjust for limitations
- Conclusions
- Usefulness of the work
- Sustainability
- Potential for spread to other contexts
- Implications for practice and for further study in the field
- Suggested next steps
- Summary
Article publié pour la première fois le 02/01/2018