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Guidelines for Writing Effective Abstracts in Fertility and Sterility Research

This document outlines essential guidelines for writing abstracts in the field of fertility and sterility, emphasizing the importance of study design. It explores various types of studies, including historical cohort studies, retrospective analyses, clinical studies, and randomized controlled trials. The emphasis is placed on the preference for prospective studies and the significance of well-structured abstracts that comply with evidence-based medicine. Researchers are encouraged to design high-quality research proposals to improve acceptance rates for their abstracts in peer-reviewed journals.

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Guidelines for Writing Effective Abstracts in Fertility and Sterility Research

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  1. HOW TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT P Devroey

  2. Consideration on Fertility and Sterility November 2009

  3. Which type of abstract? Which type of study? • Historic cohort study • Retrospective and analysis • Laboratory based study • Systematic review and meta-analysis • In vitro and in vivo study • Clinical study • Retrospective non-randomized study Source Fertilty and Sterility November 2009

  4. Which type of abstract? Which type of study? (continued) • Retrospective cohort study • Retrospective case series study • Retrospective clinical study • Retrospective data review • Cross-sectional study Source Fertilty and Sterility November 2009

  5. Which type of abstract? Which type of study? (continued) • Pilot study • Prospective cohort study • Meta-analysis • Systematic review • Randomizedcontrolled trial Source Fertilty and Sterility November 2009 Absent in Fertilty and Sterility November 2009

  6. Which type of abstract? Which type of study?

  7. Preferred type of abstract and study

  8. Preferred type of abstract and study ( continued)

  9. Pilot study • Innovative idea • Mechanistic study • Small sample • Judgement positive • Conclusion to start trial • preferentialy randomized controlled trial

  10. Randomized controlled trial • State of the art • Blinded • Sealed envelopes • Computer randomized list • Primary end point (only one) • Secundary end points • Power calculation • Level of significance

  11. Examples of randomized controlled trials

  12. Proposal of abstract design

  13. Which is the perspective of an abstract ? • To be presented on scientific meetings • Oral presentation • Poster presentation • To be cited as an abstract • To be written in a peer reviewed journal • To be cited as a paper

  14. Example of not well documented abstract

  15. Evaluation of properly performed abstract in Fertility and Sterility November 2009

  16. Evaluation of properly performed abstract in Fertility and Sterility March 2013

  17. Evaluation of properly performed abstract in Human Reproduction 2012

  18. Evaluation of properly performed abstract in Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2013

  19. Conclusions • The majority of published abstracts does not comply with evidence based medicine • It is of paramount importance to innitiate a correct study design • Avoidance of studies with retrospective and historical nature • Prospective studies are mandatory and preferred • Every abstract has to be viewed as a highly cited paper in a peer reviewed journal

  20. CODA • Accepting reseach in our centers based on • pilot studies • prospective studies • randomized controlled trials • This type of research does not encounter competition • High acceptance rates of abstracts and manuscripts are predictable • Randomized controlled trials (RCT) are proned to be cited in meta-analysis

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