Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 3 , Pages 334-337 , September 2002

The effect of dedicated methodology and statistical review on published manuscript quality

Presented at the Fourth International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, Barcelona, Spain, September 2001.

Received 5 June 2002 ,Accepted 11 June 2002.

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☆ Author contributions: All of the authors participated in the conceptualization of the study. DLS, RJC, and RLW scored the manuscripts and the reviews. DLS and RJC performed the data analysis. DLS and JFW drafted the manuscript. All authors participated in preparation of the final draft. DLS takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: David L. Schriger, MD, MPH, UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, 924 Westwood Boulevard, #300, Los Angeles, CA 90024; 310-794-0593, fax 310-794-0599; E-mail schriger@ucla.edu.

PII: S0196-0644(02)00049-5

doi: 10.1067/mem.2002.127328

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 3 , Pages 334-337 , September 2002

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