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Patients need plain language summaries that are easy to read and understand.

Lay and plain language summaries

Jane Lamprill is a lay (plain) language medical writer. She can work with your team to produce easy-language information for your readers.

Jane has many years’ experience working in the clinical trials sector, so understands the needs of both patients and industry.

Examples include lay summaries for clinicaltrials.gov and the EU Clinical Trials Regulation database. All writing complies to standards of Good Lay Summary Practice.

Jane also writes Paediatric lay summaries for children in simpllified, age-appropriate language.

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Lay summaries clinical trial results

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Plain language publication summaries

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Jane Lamprill can work with your team to write clinical trial lay summareis for adults and children.

Lay summaries | brief overview

The EU/536/2014 Clinical Trial Regulation (5)  requires lay summaries of all clinical trial results to be placed on the EMA ‘s  public database. This applies to all studies for Market Authorisation Applications in Europe. Lay summaries must be posted from the date of last patient last visit after:

The UK ISRCTN Registry:  ‘Make it Public’ is the UK’s Health Research Authority’s new transparency initiative. All UK ethically approved clinical trials must be registered. Lay summaries are required initially for the proposed studies, and also for the study results.

References and useful information

1
2021
National Literacy Trust
Adult literacy: Information on adult literacy in the UK and the Books Unlocked programme
2
2018
Biros, M
Capacity, Vulnerability, and Informed Consent for Research
3
2021
European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Public policy: EU Clinical Trials Regulation. (A quick overview)
4
2014
European Parliament and the Council
Clinical Trial Regulation (EU) No 536/2014
5
2021
European Commission
Guidance: Good Lay Summary Practice (Eudralex Vol 10, Chapter V additional documents)
6
2009
European Commission
Eudralex Volume 10 Guideline 2009/C28/01 on the information concerning paediatric clinical trials to be entered into the EU Database on Clinical Trials (EudraCT) and on the information to be made public by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in accordance with Article 41 of Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006
7
2016
European Medicines Agency
ICH E6 (R2) Good clinical practice
8
2019
European Commission
MDCG- 2019-9 Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance. A guide for manufacturers and Notified Bodies
9
2021
BMC – Springer Nature
ISRCTN Registry for UK clinical trial registration and reporting of results
10
2021
UK Health Research Authority
Make it Public: transparency and openness in health and social care research
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