Last Updated on July 15, 2020 by Ayla Myrick
<![CDATA[V. Lawrence (retired)
Many people find the research process to be exciting and innovative, but who will know about all the research being done without clear and concise reports of such great work? Writing reports of health-related research requires the researcher to carefully and clearly identify the steps of the research study that were carried out in order to make use of the study. Below are several important components that are regularly included in health-related and clinical research reports. Health-related and clinical research reports are most useful when they contain the elements above because it allows for reproducibility of the research being done. It also allows other researchers to evaluate whether research carried out by other scientists is applicable to particular questions of interest, including those defined by the target population, health outcome of interest, or in the case of public health, exposure of interest. Research without clarity is hardly useful to the other researchers who study the same topic.