RTEG Unified Manuscript and Reference.pdf

Research unified guideline

1. CMETRU RESEARCH
SECTION
HANSEL GOULD B. COCJIN, MD, FPOA
MARCH 3, 2021

2. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

3. OBJECTIVES
•Unified Manuscript Preparation
•ICJME (The International Committee
of Medical Journal Editors)based
proposal

4. RTEG-RERC UNIFIED FORMAT
•Title and Authors
•Table of Contents
•Introduction/Background
•Rationale and Significance
•Research question/s
•Objectives
•Review of Related Literature
•Conceptual Framework

5. RTEG-RERC UNIFIED FORMAT
•Methods
•Study Design
•Study Setting
•Study Population
•Inclusion/Exclusion/Withdrawal/Drop-out
Criteria
•Sample size, sampling design and plan
•Study Procedures/Study flow
•Plan for Data Analysis
•Ethical Considerations
•Operational Definitions

6. RTEG-RERC UNIFIED FORMAT
•References
•Timetable
•Budget
•Annexes: CV, Informed Consent Forms if
necessary, Data Collection Tools, Dummy
Table

7. TITLE AND AUTHORS
•Title: General information, scientific, and concise.
•Authors: Include all information about the author
and his/her affiliations.
•Correspondence: PI’s address and contact
information.

8. TABLE OF CONTENTS
•Contents
•Page number
•Page at the bottom right of the page with
last name of the PI. (Cocjin–1).

9. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
•Provide a context or background for the study (that is, the nature
of the problem and its significance).
•State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis
tested by, the study or observation.
•4 Concise paragraphs:
•1
st
: Problem? (Current knowledge gap)
•2
nd
: Proposed Solution? (Answer the gap)
•3
rd
: How? (Objective setting)
•4
th
: Why? (Significance)

10. RATIONALE AND SIGNIFICANCE
•Why will you do the study?
•Build interest on the reader.
•Potential of the solution/answer to the PI, practice,
institution, and study targets.

11. RESEARCH QUESTION
•What do you want to
achieve/answer through your
study?

12. OBJECTIVES
•General objective/goal/direction.
•Specific objectives:
•Details on the variables that you want to measure.
•Include methods on how will you measure the variables
(quantitative/qualitative).

13. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
•Related literatures ONLY.
•Have similar objectives/direction.
•Have similar variables.
•Similar of different results.

14. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
•Provide study concept in a glance.
•How you will treat the relationship
of variables?
•Dependent/Independent variables.

15. METHODS
•Study Design
•Direction of the study. Retrospective < Cross-sectional > Prospective

16. METHODS
•Study Setting
•When? Inclusive time?
•Where?

17. METHODS
•Study Population
•Subjects
•Inclusion/Exclusion/Withdrawal/Drop-out Criteria
•Screen/Determine the type of subjects
•Sample size, sampling design and plan
•How much do you need?

18. METHODS
•Study Procedures/Study flow
•Details on how will you proceed form the RTEG and
RERC approval to final version of the study.
•Outline of activity and procedures.

19. METHODS
•Plan for Data Analysis
•Statisticians plan for data analysis/presentation
•Dummy tables
•Ethical Considerations
•Data privacy, protection, storage, sharing, and shredding.
•Operational Definitions (may append)
•Pertinent variables
•Use standard/internationally recognized abbreviations

20. REFERENCES
•Authors should provide direct references to original research sources
whenever possible.
•References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are
first mentioned in the text.
•References to papers accepted but not yet published should be designated as
“in press” or “forthcoming.” Information from manuscripts submitted but not
accepted should be cited in the text as “unpublished observations” with
written permission from the source.
•Published articles should reference the unique, persistent identifiers of the
datasets employed.

21. REFERENCES
•Standard journal article
•Halpern SD, UbelPA, CaplanAL. Solid-organ transplantation in
HIV-infected patients. N EnglJ Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
•List the first six authors, followed by et al. If there are more
than six authors, list the first six authors, followed by et al.
(Note: NLM now lists all authors.):
•Rose ME, HuerbinMB, MelickJ, Marion DW, Palmer AM,
SchidingJK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid
concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res.
2002;935(1-2):40-6.

22. ANNEXES
•Timetable
•Budget
•Authors CV
•Informed Consent Forms if necessary
•Data Collection Tools
•Dummy Table
•Definition of Terms
•Operational Definitions

23. TIPS
First: Select a TOPICthat interest you. TITLEsetting.
Second: Look for knowledge GAP. Article search. (RRL)
Third: Gap becomes your PROBLEM. (Research
Question)
Fourth: Determine methods; study DESIGN, setting,
VARIABLES.

24. TIPS
Fifth: Variables becomes your OBJECTIVES.
Sixth: Finalize Methodologysection.
Seventh: Formulate INTRODUCTION.
Eight: Make your complete first draft of the
study PROPOSAL.

25. RTEGPOLICY

26. RTEGPOLICY

27. RTEGPOLICY

28. RTEGPOLICY

29. RTEGPOLICY

30. RTEGPOLICY

31. RTEGPOLICY

32. SUMMARY
•RTEG FIRST BEFORE RERC SUBMISSION
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•SUBMIT YOUR FULL RESEARCH PAPERS WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER
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33. FORMS
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TO THE UNIFIED MANUSCRIPT

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39. •STATISTICAL CONSULTATION FORM
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41. IMPORTANT
Research papers which are not
compliant to the prescribed format will
notbe accepted.
We highly encourage you to please
disseminate this to all your residents.

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