I have enjoyed the recent edi-torials by CMAJ scientific editor Dr. Bruce P. Squires (Can Med
Assoc J 1989; 141: 17-19, 195-197, 379-380) outlining the standards expected of authors of …

In the firsttwo articles of the series" What editors want from authors and peer reviewers" I
outlined the basic standards expected of authors of original research articles and clinical …

Several leading medical journals have discontinued the publication of case reports.
Possibly, this has occurred because the format of the case report is the most abused and …

I f I were submitting a manu-script today to adistin-guished medical journal, I would want
most of all to have Dr. Peter Morgan as the editor who would review my contribu-tion. If it …

Two years have passed since the toxic shock syndrome was first reported in menstruating
women in the United States.'Subsequent elegant epidemiological investigations showed a …

The article presents information about case reports of the journal" The Surgeon." The author
says that case reports provide an important form of communication for their readership and …

I am not a researcher myself and my ability as such would be only that which I pursue during
my daily clinical practice when applying the scientific method during medical examination of …

Medical journals group their scien-tific articles under a number of headings, such as"
Original Arti-cles"," Papers and Short Reports"," Medical Intelligence"," Research Reports" …

Almost a year has passed since the editorial series" What editors expect from authors and
peer reviewers" began in CMAJ.'We have been pleased with the response: there have been …

A case report is an article that describes an uncontrolled observation in a few patients
(generally less than 10) and generally has a characteristic format in which the description of …