Preliminary draft of rMarkdown template for clinical studies. Includes:
- Manuscript headers
- Sample implementations of tables
- Sample implementations of commonly used graphs in clinical research
- Conference presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17k4qldXhSUs0_dWDRCo1de7wuaku1XM6d9h0WWWWv9Y/edit?usp=sharing
- Conference supplemental information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikzAsFcXqvO3Hdju6AtbNsqrw_1N7ZgRJ3pgi2pU82Y/edit?usp=sharing
- Conference abstract: https://ebm.bmj.com/content/27/Suppl_2/A15.2?fbclid=IwAR3eXrSBxH40NVGwFssYuUXbxpfEc31VqyX4H4PHF5c5f8M-pPwAExSzScg
Next steps:
- Types of clinical article templates: build specific templates for specific types of studies (case study, case series, cohort study, case-control study, randomized control trial, systematic review, meta-analysis), with their accompanying tables and figures.
- Educational videos: build out a series of educational videos for users of this template to learn how to navigate & adapt the template for their own purposes. Presuming basic level of R competence from template users.
- Consult with research software engineers (or anyone far more cleverer than me at R): clean up code, identify and resolve inefficiencies.
- Submit to CRAN for inclusion in the 'rticles' package.
Disclaimers:
- Much of template.tex code heavily adapted from prior iterations of rticles packages (PLoS 2018), with the intent to contribute back to existing rticles package once integration is complete.
- Vignettes of available graphs adapted from the underlying educational vignettes of each of the tools.