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E-raamat: Writing High-Quality Medical Publications: A User's Manual [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 512 pages, 109 Line drawings, color; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, color; 5 Halftones, black and white; 119 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2018
  • Kirjastus: CRC Press
  • ISBN-13: 9781315153803
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Formaat: 512 pages, 109 Line drawings, color; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, color; 5 Halftones, black and white; 119 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2018
  • Kirjastus: CRC Press
  • ISBN-13: 9781315153803

The imperative to "publish and not perish" has never been more compelling. Yet millions of manuscripts are prepared each year without a clear path to publication by a peer-reviewed medical journal. Enter "The Gutkin Manual." Drawing from the author's distinguished, nearly 30-year career, this comprehensive and supportive guide helps to get your paper accepted—and by the journal of first choice. Elucidating pivotal principles of quality, and biostatistics, and informed by the belief that your writing can be engaging, elegant, and memorable—no matter how technical and complex the subject matter, this volume can be your trustworthy companion as you seek to enhance both the structure and substance of your manuscripts.

Preface ix
Author xiii
Acknowledgments: Image Credits xv
1 Principles and examples of quality in medical communications
1(30)
1.1 Get your paper published---On the first attempt!
1(1)
1.2 Common reasons why papers are rejected and strategies to promote acceptance
2(2)
1.3 Unique challenges for medical writers
4(1)
1.4 Principles and examples of ethical medical communications
4(8)
1.5 Other pillars of quality in medical writing
12(15)
1.6
Chapter summary
27(4)
References
28(3)
2 Drafting the manuscript: Step-by-step guidelines and exercises
31(90)
2.1 Work flow dynamics
31(13)
2.2 Structure and style
44(6)
2.3 Structuring the outline
50(10)
2.4 How To Write A Report Of A (" HOW-TWA-ROA") study
60(16)
2.5 Rhetorical exercises and "before-after" examples to enhance prose style
76(9)
2.6 Before-after exercises, by manuscript segment
85(8)
2.7 Putting it all together: A representative (fictitious) study report for a multispecialty journal
93(28)
References
97(3)
Appendix: "Diction-err-y"---A guide to better usage
100(21)
3 Biostatistics: Issues in study design, analysis, and reporting
121(118)
3.1 Statistics: Sturm und drang
122(5)
3.2 The nature and distributions of data and their implications for statistical analyses
127(3)
3.3 Signal versus noise; Confidence versus doubt
130(7)
3.4 The fundamentals: Descriptive statistics, including data distributions and measures of central tendency and dispersion (error)
137(9)
3.5 Statistical error
146(3)
3.6 Human error: Defects in logic
149(2)
3.7 Introduction to confounding and bias
151(13)
3.8 Comprehensive review of precision, reproducibility, reliability, validity, effect modification, interaction, and bias
164(7)
3.9 Statistical tests for categorical data: Examples and exercises
171(10)
3.10 Statistical tests for continuous data: Examples and exercises
181(28)
3.11 Selected statistical tests organized in ascending alphabetical order
209(30)
References
232(7)
4 Best practices: Consensus recommendations and standards to prepare high-quality, ethical, transparently disclosed manuscripts for journal publication
239(150)
Executive summary
239(3)
Part 1 QC checklists and other tables to optimize manuscript quality
242(138)
Part 2 Forms related to transparent and ethical disclosures
380(6)
References
386(3)
Appendix 1 Minimum clinically important differences (MCIDs) in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) 389(12)
Appendix 2 Probability distribution data tables to compute p values 401(8)
Appendix 3 Common abbreviations in clinical and pharmaceutical sciences 409(70)
Index 479
Stephen W. Gutkin is a medical communications professional who has 30 years of experience in medical writing, editing, and editorial management, and publication planning and execution. A coauthor of 14 papers in peer-reviewed journals, Mr. Gutkin served as President of Rete Biomedical Communications Corp. for 23 years, during which the organization consulted widely with industry and academia. A summa cum laude graduate of Duke University, Mr. Gutkin served as arts critic for the Brooklyn Paper; research scientist for a toxicology laboratory that also assayed psychiatric biomarkers; and as copy chief with McGraw-Hill Healthcare (New York). He has delivered invited lectures on medical writing at Johnson & Johnson and the Center for Business Intelligence (now CBINET). Mr. Gutkin is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Writers Association, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, and The Phi Beta Kappa. He resides in Midland Park New Jersey, with his wife, son, and colorful pet managerie.