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Presentation of Information for Printed Publications, Slides and Posters

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Data in Medicine: Collection, Processing and Presentation

Part of the book series: Instrumentation and Techniques in Clinical Medicine ((ITCM,volume 1))

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A vitally important part of any research activity is the dissemination of results to other research workers, to students, and to those in a position to implement the findings in a practical way. This dissemination process can take place in a number of ways, but in most cases some kind of visual presentation of all or part of the information is necessary. Printed material, in the form of journal articles, reports and books, is perhaps the most commonly used medium for publicizing research results, and here the presentation is entirely visual. At conferences, visual aids such as slides are used as an essential complement to the spoken word. More recently posters have begun to become popular as a means of presenting summaries of research results. In all three cases, the quality of the visual presentation will affect the ease with which potential users of the results are able to read, understand and remember the information given.

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  1. Medical Faculty, Biomedical Centre, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Robert S. Reneman M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Physiology) (Professor of Physiology)

  2. Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam, Herengracht 196, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Strackee Ph.D. (Professor of Biomedical Informatics) (Professor of Biomedical Informatics)

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Reynolds, L., Spencer, H., Reneman, R.S. (1979). Presentation of Information for Printed Publications, Slides and Posters. In: Reneman, R.S., Strackee, J. (eds) Data in Medicine: Collection, Processing and Presentation. Instrumentation and Techniques in Clinical Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9309-9_11

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