"plain summary" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to summarize a text or speech in a straightforward way. For example: "The plain summary of the talk was that the speaker was proposing a new way to evaluate student performance."
The user-friendly summaries are presented in a format that provides: (1) an outline of the topic of the review, a plain language summary and a bulleted list of key messages summary; (2) an outline of the benefits, harms and costs of the intervention, program or service evaluated in the review; and (3) relevant equity and local applicability considerations.
The aim of this study was to test the usefulness of an infographic in the translation of knowledge about health information from a Cochrane systematic review to lay and professional populations in comparison to a plain language summary (PLS) and scientific abstract (SA).
A plain language summary of the results will be sent to the parents of participants.
Level 2 involved giving a plain language summary of the algorithm to a research fellow who had not been involved in the development of the algorithm.
Informed consent was obtained in all cases and prior to the interview, a plain language summary of the IHSD Template and its structure was provided.
A one page plain language summary of the proposed research Copies of all questionnaires, case report forms and instruments to be used in the research.
Each review has a Plain Language Summary (PLS), for those without specialised knowledge, and an abstract, which are freely available from The Cochrane Library (https://summaries.cochrane.org).org
All service users will be invited to review drafts of the study report, contribute to writing the Plain English Summary and advise on dissemination.
In terms of dissemination, this paper is an academic output describing the process; a plain language summary will be made available and separate documents are being used to publicise the findings (see online supplementary files 2 and 3).
