Main description:

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.

Contents:

1. Principles and Examples of Quality in Medical Communications. 2. Drafting the Manuscript: Step-by-Step Guidelines and Exercises. 3. Biostatistics: Issues in Study Design, Analysis, and Reporting. 4. Best Practices: Consensus Recommendations and Standards to Prepare High-Quality, Ethical, Transparently Disclosed Manuscripts for Journal Publication. Appendix 1. Minimum Clinically Important Differences (MCIDs) in Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs). Appendix 2. Probability Distribution Data Tables to Compute p Values. Appendix 3. Common Abbreviations in Clinical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.