Writing to Improve Healthcare : an Authors Guide to Scholarly Publication, First Edition

Content: Cover
 Half Title Page
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Preface
 Foreword
 About the author
 Acknowledgments
 Chapter 1: The imperative to publish healthcare improvement
 Healthcare improvement is incomplete until it is published
 This is different from writing for most biomedical fields
 Improvement processes that can facilitate your writing
 Develop your own roadmap to successful publication
 How did healthcare writing and publication arrive here?
 An emerging cross current: Calls for methodologies based on evidence. Another defining cross current: Human subjects protection and healthcare improvementPublication guidelines and improvement writing: SQUIRE, STARI, PRISMA, CONSORT, SRQR
 Continually track the evolving science of healthcare improvement
 References
 Chapter 2: Writing to improve healthcare: Preparation of a scholarly manuscript
 Writing for healthcare improvement is different
 Begin your manuscript early
 Eat dessert first
 Introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD), a familiar structure
 Introduction
 Methods
 Human subjects review
 Results
 Tables and graphs
 Discussion. Your obligation to help readers find your paper: The importance of your title and abstractKey words and mesh terms
 On to your revisions ... 
 Disseminate your message: Commentaries, systematic reviews, editorials, and letters to the editor
 A coda: Harvesting reflection, overcoming a dry well, and finding flow
 When the well seems dry
 Finding flow
 References
 Chapter 3: Develop a writing style that focuses on your reader
 Focus on your reader
 Identifying your reader
 Simple strategies that can smooth the path to your reader
 Just how many readers will your paper find? Work to achieve an effective writing styleElements of an effective style: Clarity
 Elements of an effective style: Parsimony
 Elements of an effective style: Color and rhythm
 Stare at something until you see it: An exercise in close reading
 Find your own examples of good writing
 Employ your own strategies for reading to be a better writer
 References
 Chapter 4: Writing efficiently and effectively with co-authors
 "If you can't describe what you're doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
 Using improvement methodology to enhance writing productivity. The not so obvious impedimentsIdentifying appropriate co-authors
 Working together as a high performance microsystem
 "First tasks" for your work together on the manuscript at hand
 Seek informal critical reads by colleagues
 References
 Chapter 5: Harness the full potential of peer review for your writing success
 Peer review and its contribution to your writing
 Peer review as an improvement process
 Nine rules that can serve as a guide to peer review
 Relate peer review explicitly to your aims as an author
 Become a participant in the editorial community as a journal reviewer.