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Writing a quality improvement paper
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Asia Pacific Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care National Quality Improvement Day
Ko Awatea 19 September 2012
Professor Felicity Goodyear-SmithDepartment of General Practice & Primary Health Care University of Auckland
Cooking up that publication
Make the time
• Pressure cooker approach: set aside block of time
• Casserole: slowly over time
• Slowly over time
Organisation: storage
• Keep all project files in 1 folder
• +/- sub-folders
• Include Endnote (bibliography) file
Preparation
Assemble your ingredients
• Grant proposals
• Ethics application
• Data set
• Study reports
• Reference list
Preparation
Organise your utensils
• Literature databases
• Bibliography software (Endnote)
• Instructions for authors: (see journal)
Are you working on your own?
or do you have collaborators?
Rules for co-authorship
Substantial contribution to:
1. Conception & design, or analysis & interpretation of data
PLUS
2. Drafting article or revising critically for important intellectual content
Rules for co-authorship
Be inclusive but exclude sleeping partners
Participation solely in acquisition of funding OR collection of data does not justify authorship
Too many cooks…
1.Need one person to take control
2. May assign roles to others
Amendments
• Track-changes
• Highlighter
• Paper versus electronic
Lead writer
• Nag your co-authors (gently)
• May have to spoon-feed
• Set time limits for response
Chose your journal
Who is the audience?
Weigh up target readers / impact factor
Journal IF
eg
New Eng Med J = 50
BMJ = 13.7
NZMJ = 0
JPHC = watch this space
Target audience eg
world scientists
NZ academics
local GPs
your mother
Start at the top?
• Is there any chance of top journal publishing this?
• Will it provide good reviewer comments?
• Will it take long?
What type of journal?
• NZ or international?
• UK / Europe, North America
Australasia
• General medical or primary health care?
Sub-speciality? Think laterally?
Open access (e-journal only)?
Article processing charge of £1125/US$1835/€1285 payable for articles accepted for publication.If your institution, society or other organization is a BioMed Central member, this cost may be wholly or partly covered by
the membership arrangement.
Break here for promo
Advertise
ment
Peer-reviewed journal of RNZCGP
•Replaced NZ Family Physician 2009
(35 yrs, not MEDLINE)
•MEDLINE achieved 2010
• Pacific rim: Māori, Pacific & Asian health issues
• Fields include:
– Clinical practice
– Health care delivery
– Health promotion
– Epidemiology
– Public health
– Medical sociology
Scope
• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Mixed method
• Systematic review
& meta-analysis
• Improving performance
• Case reviews
Rigorous peer review
Original research
Writing for Journal of Primary Health Care
Instructions for authorsFollow instructions!Templates for: • Quantitative papers• Qualitative papers
• Improving performance papers• Patient consent formsInstructions for peer reviewers• Template for peer reviews