| The challenges of writing clinical summaries and
clinical overviews may be different from those
associated with clinical
study reports, but the same writing skills are highly relevant.
The writer must understand the purpose of each of the different documents.
The documents must give a concise, accurate and highly readable summary
of the trial data, have adequate aids to navigate the reader through
all components and, where necessary offer a clinical interpretation
and judgement that can be readily understood by the audience.
Most pharmaceutical organisations will have clearly defined procedures
for creating and assembling the regulatory material that comprises
the submission, and effective project management will be fundamental
to the speed and efficiency of the submission process. In this
context the medical writer will need to show effective communication
skills beyond those generally required for medical writing. The
writer has a key role to play within a multidisciplinary team and
must be skilled at participating in negotiations and discussions
that focus on efforts to present the results of drug development
studies in an appropriate and rigorous manner. |