Writing High-Quality Medical Publications A User's Manual

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.

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: ConsensusRecommendations 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. Appendix3. Common Abbreviations in Clinical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Stephen W. Gutkin is a medical communications professional who has30 years of experience in medical writing, editing,and editorial management, and publication planning and execution.A coauthor of 14 papers inpeer-reviewed journals, Mr. Gutkinserved 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 ascopy 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 inMidland ParkNew Jersey, with his wife, son, and colorful pet managerie.