Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
How much do you need: a randomised experiment of whether readers can understand the key messages from summaries of Cochrane Reviews without reading the full review.
We explored whether readers can understand key messages without having to read the full review, and if there were differences in understanding between various types of summary. ⋯ The differences between the groups were not statistically significant but suggest that the audio summary might improve knowledge transfer compared to written summaries. These findings should be explored further using a larger sample size and with other reviews.