Submitting manuscripts to biomedical journals: Common errors and helpful solutions

Here is a very helpful article from the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. For now it is available free online:
Johnson C, Green B. Submitting manuscripts to biomedical journals: Common errors and helpful solutions. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 Jan;32(1):1-12.
This article reviews common, but avoidable, errors that authors may make [...]

What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature?

   Here is an interesting article just published in PloS Medicine [Open Access]:
Gøtzsche PC, Kassirer JP, Woolley KL, Wager E, Jacobs A, et al. (2009) What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature?PLoS Med 6(2): e1000023.
Background to the debate: Ghostwriting occurs when someone makes substantial contributions to a manuscript without attribution or [...]

Practice Guidelines: Open Access Publications

The following publications are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library:

Nuckols TK, Lim YW, Wynn BO, Mattke S, MacLean CH, Harber P, Brook RH, Wallace P, Garland RH, Asch S. Rigorous development does not ensure that guidelines are acceptable to a panel of knowledgeable providers. J Gen Intern Med 2008 Jan;23(1):37-44.
Davis D, Goldman J, Palda [...]

Knowledge Translation: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library:

Cordero C, Delino R, Jeyaseelan L, Lansang MA, Lozano JM, Kumar S, Moreno S, Pietersen M, Quirino J, Thamlikitkul V, Welch VA, Tetroe J, Ter Kuile A, Graham ID, Grimshaw J, Neufeld V, Wells G, Tugwell P.  Funding agencies in low- and middle-income countries: [...]

Physician Prescribing Behaviour: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library:

Esmaily HM, Savage C, Vahidi R, Amini A, Zarrintan MH, Wahlstrom R.  Identifying outcome-based indicators and developing a curriculum for a continuing medical education programme on rational prescribing using a modified Delphi process. BMC Med Educ 2008 May 30;8:33.
Lu CY, Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, [...]

Internet Continuing Health Education: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from the CACHE Open Access Library:

Casebeer L, Engler S, Bennett N, Irvine M, Sulkes D, Deslauriers M, Zhang S. A controlled trial of the effectiveness of Internet continuing medical education. BMC Med 2008 Dec 4;6(1):37. 
Bennett NL, Casebeer LL, Kristofco R, Collins BC.  Family physicians’ information seeking behaviors: A survey [...]

Evidence-Based Health Care: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library:

De Vito C, Nobile CG, Furnari G, Pavia M, De Giusti M, Angelillo IF, Villari P.  Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and professional use of RCTs and meta-analyses: A cross-sectional survey. Eur J Public Health 2009 Jan 7.
Montori VM, Guyatt GH. Progress in evidence-based medicine. JAMA [...]

Physician / Pharmaceutical Industry Relationship: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from the CACHE Open Access Library:

Steinbrook R. Online disclosure of physician–industry relationships. N Engl J Med 2009;360:325-327.
Steiner TJ.  Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry–report and recommendations of the Ethics Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia 2008 Sep;28 Suppl 3:1-25.
Gagnon MA, [...]

Funding of Continuing Health Education: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library:

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA). American Medical Association. Report 1 of The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Industry Support of Professional Education in Medicine.[2008]
Mamdani B. The ethics of industry support for professional education in medicine. Indian J Med Ethics 2008 Oct-Dec;5(4):177-80.
Sears [...]