LOHR CONSULTING, INC.
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA

Do you think your products and materials could benefit from careful, knowledgeable proofreading and editing? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then our goal is to help you add value to your written products. We can help you achieve more effective, and more efficient, writing — and tell the clinical or policy story you want your readers to understand and act on. We can advise on how to make your written documents concise, error-free, and vibrant yet scholarly. If you want to make your written materials appealing, responsive to the needs of your clients and audiences, and of the high quality reflecting the rigor and excellence of your research and science, then we will be delighted to help you meet these goals. Providing advisory activities for the main federal agency (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) supporting the production of systematic reviews of health-related literature, which professional organizations use to develop clinical practice guidelines or related quality-improvement measures. Why did we set out to do the work we are writing about, or why did the funder ask us to do it? Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations: Member, Advisory Council on Performance Measurement, 1995 to 1999; Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Core Measures, 1997 to 1999; Member, Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Patient Safety Accreditation (on behalf of the Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics), 2001 Scientific Writing: Making it Readable Rewriting is the crucial stage. Identifying one’s own bad habits to improve a default mode of writing is an important byproduct of this process. We assist organizations and individual authors to write, publish, and share reader-friendly articles and reports that will appeal to clinical, policymaking, and patient audiences. We help you convey your thoughts, findings, and conclusions in direct, accurate, and actionable language. We provide in-depth consultations, constructive review of your manuscripts, extensive or limited editing, and other services that you may want. We are happy to discuss options for publishing scientific materials in various venues, provide either top-line or detailed comments or revisions of your manuscripts, advise about clear, concise writing, and help you with copy-editing and proofreading. We're ready to help Scientific Writing: Making It Readable offers basic guidance on how authors at research organizations can improve their written products—e.g., reports for research sponsor, peer-reviewed journal articles, research proposals, and other materials.