Chart reviews are the most common clinical study design and the most weakly reported. Ten Methods elements tha...
The most common reason clinical papers are rejected is not weak data — it is a claim the design cannot support...
CONSORT and PRISMA are the famous two, and neither applies to most surgical papers. A map of the guidelines th...
“Legitimate journals are transparent about their fees, peer review and editorial board — verify all three before you submit.”
A complications table is a manuscript deliverable, not a formality. How to grade each event on a named scale, state the window your count covers, and...
Questionnaire and KAP studies run into four recurring reporting failures, and none of them is the statistics. A twelve-row reporting grid, and the ver...
Consent covers permission. It does not remove the patient's name from the DICOM header, the GPS tag from the ward photograph, or the MRN burned into t...
You finished the audit and nobody told you what to do next. The cycle that makes it publishable, an 18-item SQUIRE 2.0 structure map, and the approval...
A reference manager formats entries; it does not confirm they are real. A seven-pass routine verifies every identifier, every claim and every in-text...
Your poster is in a meeting supplement with a DOI. Here is the line between preliminary reporting and a genuine duplicate, plus the wording and citati...
A submission is not a form but a list of documents. Here is the full inventory — files, author details, declarations and approvals — and which of them...
Two oncology vocabularies, two version traps. What RECIST measures, what a CTCAE grade will not tell you about cause, and a fill-in template for the r...
In surgical papers the operation is the method, yet it is told as a story. Here is the running order that makes an operative description repeatable, w...
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