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Working notes on reporting guidelines, journal requirements, trial documents, grants and statistical reporting. Each article names the guideline version it was checked against.
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- Journal manuscripts
- Medical books
- Medical dissertations
- Grant writing
- Clinical study reports
- Corporate medical writing
- Statistical interpretation
- Medical books
References and indexing in medical books: AMA, Vancouver and index terms
Chapter-level versus book-level reference lists, AMA and Vancouver differences shown on the same five references, and how index terms are chosen for a medical book.
- Medical dissertations
A systematic review as your dissertation: PROSPERO, PRISMA-P and scope control
How to register a dissertation review, write the protocol against the 17 PRISMA-P items, plan screening when you are the only full-time reviewer, and report it accurately.
- Corporate medical writing
Plain language summaries of publications: format, review and where journals host them
What GPP 2022 and the Open Pharma recommendations say about plain language summaries, how to test reading level, where summaries are hosted, and a worked abstract-to-summary example.
- Corporate medical writing
Medical white papers: evidence grading, structure and referencing
A section template for a medical white paper, a way to state the level of evidence behind each claim, referencing rules, and the review and sign-off record to keep.
- Corporate medical writing
Building a scientific slide deck from a published trial
How to turn a trial publication into a scientific deck: slide-level referencing, redrawn figures and permissions, speaker notes, and a data-check sheet for every slide.
- Corporate medical writing
CME needs assessments: structure, evidence and the independence standards
How to build a CME needs assessment from practice gap to learning objective, how to rank the evidence behind a gap, and what the ACCME Standards require.
- Corporate medical writing
GPP 2022 against GPP3: the changes that affect sponsors and writers
A change table from GPP3 (2015) to GPP 2022: wider scope, patients as authors, plain language summaries, preprints, steering committees, and what to update in SOPs.
- Corporate medical writing
What a publication plan contains under GPP 2022
The components of a company-sponsored publication plan as GPP 2022 describes them, with a blank plan table, an illustrative filled example and the records to keep.
- Medical books
Permissions for figures, tables and patient images in medical books
The routes to reusing a published figure or table in a medical book, what each Creative Commons licence allows, consent for identifiable patient images, and a permissions log template.
- Journal manuscripts
Answering the statistical reviewer: a response-letter structure with examples
Six statistical comments that recur in peer review (multiplicity, missing data, model assumptions, sample size, confounding, subgroup claims), each with a model response and the manuscript change that goes with it.
- Journal manuscripts
Late or retrospective trial registration: what journals will accept
The ICMJE policy on prospective registration as worded in January 2026, how the registration date is judged, how to word a late-registration disclosure, and what CTRI, ChiCTR and ClinicalTrials.gov require.
- Journal manuscripts
PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams: the counting errors reviewers catch
A PRISMA 2020 flow diagram is a set of subtractions that must balance. A worked reconciliation through every box, with databases and registers kept apart from other sources, and the ten errors to check for.
- Medical dissertations
What help is permitted on a medical thesis: editing, statistics support and the line examiners draw
What three published university and professional rules allow a third-party editor to do, how statistics and formatting support fit, and how to record assistance in the thesis.
- Journal manuscripts
Case reports: CARE checklist, patient consent and timeline figure
The 13 CARE items with what each needs in the manuscript, what consent for publication has to cover under the ICMJE Recommendations, how to de-identify images, and how to draw the timeline.
- Medical books
Editing a multi-author medical book: the consistency sheet
The four working documents a volume editor needs: contributor guidelines, a style sheet for terminology, drug names and references, an overlap map and a chapter tracking table.
- Grant writing
Writing the Research Strategy for the NIH simplified review framework
The three NIH review factors, the questions reviewers answer under each, where to put the evidence in Significance, Innovation and Approach, and what is no longer scored.
- Medical dissertations
Reading a similarity report: what the percentage does and does not mean
How to read a thesis similarity report by source and by section, what the UGC 2018 regulations say about levels and exclusions, and how to resolve each kind of match properly.
- Medical books
Writing an invited medical book chapter: brief, structure and evidence currency
A chapter template, a way to date every guideline you cite, rules for drug names and units, learning points and a figure plan for an invited chapter in an edited medical book.
- Grant writing
The NIH Specific Aims page, paragraph by paragraph
What NIH asks for on the one-page Specific Aims attachment, a four-paragraph structure with an annotated fictional clinical example, and the aim faults that weaken an application.
- Medical dissertations
Thesis to journal article: cutting to 3,000 words without redundant-publication problems
What to keep and drop when a medical thesis becomes a journal article, which reporting checklist applies, and how to tell the journal about the thesis and its repository copy.