Medical articles should include a plain language summary (20 April 2024)

Summary

Accurate and accessible medical information is key to successful patient-centred care, which can be supported by the availability of easy-to-understand summaries of articles published in medical journals. In this short Lancet article, Mohamed Seghier of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, makes the case for plain language summaries that enable clinically useful research to be understood by the general public.