W10 - Peer Review / Publishing

second half

what is a CPG

comprehensive and current summary of evidence, expertise, and patient perspective regarding a condition

what is the purpose of a CPG

make recommendations about best clinical practice for a specific condition

CPGs are ____ not ______

guidance, standard of care

what are the 5 steps in CPG development?

1) determine a specific, focused topic requiring interview

2) identify and convene relevant stakeholders

3) conduct a systematic review

4) develop recommendations

5) submit for external review

what are 6 unique characteristics of CPGs

interdisciplinary, sponsored, kept current, documented consensus, recommendations, long length

clinicians should use CPGs to

make informed decisions

what 3 things should you consider when using a CPG?

year published, sponsorship, breadth of authorship

a primary difference in purpose between a SRMA and a CPG is:

SRMAs are more objective data findings while CPGs are more subjective recommendations based on data

what does an event represent

an outcome

an event is typically:

dichotomous, defined by a standard

what is event rate

how many people experienced or did not experience the event

what is required to calculate the event rate?

counts (numerical values)

how do you calculate experimental event rate (EER)?

treatment event yes/total in treatment group

how do you calculate control event rate? (CER)

control event yes/total in control group

where might you find the counts you need to calculate event rate?

tables, figures, text

what is the equation for relative risk/benefit?

EER/CER

what does relative risk/benefit mean

if you are in the treatment group, you are X times more/less likely to experience the event than the control group

what is absolute benefit increase/risk reduction (ABI or ARR)?

the actual difference in risk/benefit between treatment and control groups

how do you calculate ABI / ARR

EER-CER

what is number needed to treat (NNT)

reflects the number of patients needed to treat for at least 1 person to experience the benefit/avoid the risk

what would a perfect NNT be

1

how do you calculate NNT

1/ABI

in which equation should you use the aboslute value?

NNT

what is peer review?

the study has been double-checked by peer experts for quality, interpretation, etc.

what presentation venue is not necessarily presenting peer reviewed publications?

institutional

what are the 3 possibly outcomes after submission for publication?

rejection, revise/resubmit, acceptance

what are the quality standards used in peer-reviewing?

subjective to each reviewer

true or false: there is no checklist/guideline for peer-reviewers to follow when reviewing potential publications

true

true or false: peer review is exempt from bias due to rigorous screening procedures

false

true or false: if you are in the lab for some research, you get to be an author on the study

false

what is impact factor?

the ratio of citations of a journal in a year to number of articles published in the journal in the past 2 years

a key indicator of the quality of a journal is:

impact factor

what are 2 measures of a journal’s strength

impact factor and ranking by discipline

what should you consider when choosing a journal to submit your research to?

aims and scope, accessibility, and strength of the journal

what is H-index

the number of published manuscripts (H) that has the same number of citations (H)

H-index is like ___ ___ but for author strength

impact factor

the higher the H-factor, the more articles that have been ____ AND ____

published, referenced

what are the 4 steps in reviewer participation

commit to the process, offer constructive assistance to authors, recommend a decision/provide your rationale, be prepared to review a revised version

where might you find predatory journals?

open access publishing

what is a hallmark of predatory publishers?

reaching out to authors unsolicited asking for content