{"id":1234,"date":"2016-01-29T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:33:49","slug":"getting-the-message-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2016\/01\/29\/getting-the-message-across\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the message across"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewEBMPyramid\"There’s a rather neat editorial in\u00a0BMC Medicine<\/a> that discusses how academics might better write their papers to inform and influence policy makers. I was taken with how much the tone of this, and the excellent mini-series of blogs on\u00a0presentation skills<\/a> by @ffolliett<\/a>, were similar and applied to all sorts of layers of ‘policy’ making.<\/p>\n

Take the ‘policy’ being made on your unit – guideline implementation, the ‘how we do stuff’ of everyday practice, the business case for a new ‘Where’s Wally?’ book pre-cannulation – and think how you might want to be given\u00a0the evidence that underpins the actions.<\/p>\n

You’ll ideally need:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. A timely approach to Power,\u00a0which is mostly right
    \n(80% right and on time is better than 99% right and 8 months too late)<\/li>\n
  2. A clear statement of the problem<\/li>\n
  3. An explicit description of the limitations of your information<\/li>\n
  4. An unbiased\u00a0display of the evidence<\/li>\n
  5. Showing solutions\u00a0or<\/em> highlighting a previously unrecognised problem
    \nand<\/li>\n
  6. Described “as simply as possible (but no simpler)”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now in order to get all that straight and understandable, it might be good to follow a format\/skeleton that folk are generally familiar with. (If you start a story “Once upon a time …” there’s a wealth of expectation of what will follow.\u00a0“Once upon a time …” then “the door creaked as the power in the lakeside cottage shorted out.” is unsettling.) It might well be than an Archimedes format<\/a> allows you to tell these clinical, evidence informed tales, and maybe even encourages you to submit …<\/p>\n

    – Archi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There’s a rather neat editorial in\u00a0BMC Medicine that discusses how academics might better write their papers to inform and influence policy makers. I was taken with how much the tone of this, and the excellent mini-series of blogs on\u00a0presentation skills by @ffolliett, were similar and applied to all sorts of layers of ‘policy’ making. Take […]<\/p>\n

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