Sunnybrook March 2004

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Sunnybrook March 2004

• John Hoey
• Copy of presentation at -
• www.cmaj.ca/misc/slides

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Editor, expert in anything?
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The pleasures of editing
Dear Editor What are you smoking? Is our
Journal the garbage can of last resort? You
conspire to cover up government damage to health
care. Why do you do that? Money? After all the
CMA blather about excellence, how come you are
so sub-standard?
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The pleasures of editing
Hi, im doing this project in school about The E
Coli as an example of how water damages things
us. Can u send me info about E coli and what
it is and how it came into the waters and
stuff??? But not pages of stuff Just the
important points. Thanks, Vanessa Send to
fishy_000_at_.
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Orwells 6 rules

• Never use a metaphor, simile or figure of speech
  which you are used to seeing in print.
• Never use a long word when a short one will do.
• If possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.

Orwell Politics and the English language - 1946
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Orwells 6 rules
Passive A retrospective cohort study was done.
Active We did a retrospective cohort study.

• Never use the passive where you can use the
  active.
• Never use a FOREIGN PHRASE, a scientific word or
  a JARGON word if you can think of an everyday
  English equivalent.
• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything
  outright barbarous.

We examined the records of all patients seen in
our clinic in 1998 and telephoned then in January
2002 to determine their compliance with our
previously offered advice on weight loss.
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Getting started

• Key results
• Construct the main table
• Discernible point
• Why did you do this study?
• What were your specific objectives?

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Getting started Introduction

• Outline the discernible point
• Cite key literature - not all the literature
• End with your specific objective(s)
• Keep it short - 2 pages

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Getting started Cover letter

• Pleasure to send this paper.
• Why is it important? Discernible point.
• Anything special?
• Length
• Tables
• Questionnaire

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Cover LetterExamples

• Please find enclosed 3 copies of a manuscript
  entitled The manuscript conforms to the style
  detailed in the uniform requirements. All authors
  have read and agree with the papers content. The
  paper has not been previously published in whole
  or in part nor is it under consideration by
  another journal.

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Cover LetterBe positive

• I have enclosed my manuscript, Alzheimers
  Disease Update for consideration for
  publication.
• In the light of the announcement made late last
  year by the University of Calgary, my manuscript
  may be obsolete.

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Responding to an editor

• Comment
• On page 7 you should mention the important study
  by Groucho Marx.
• Response
• We are aware of the Marx paper. However, his
  paper addresses the rare disorder of confused
  identity with mirrors. Our paper does not discuss
  this condition. Thus we have not included a
  reference to the paper.

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Choosing the appropriate journal

• Content of manuscript
• Journal prestige and quality
• Speed of editorial process
• Probability of acceptance

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Eugene Garfield
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Impact factor ranking

• The impact factor is an index of journal quality
  and (loosely defined) represents the number of
  citations each journal article receives in the
  first 1-2 years.

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Impact factors 2003general medical journals

• NEJM 31.7
• JAMA 16.8
• Lancet 15.4
• BMJ 7.6
• CMAJ 3.2

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Impact factors 2003internal medicine journals

• Annals Intern Med 11.4
• Archives Intern Med 6.8
• Amer J Med 4.9
• J Intern Med 3.0
• J Gen Intern Med 2.8

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The moment of any new technology is moment of
choice.

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Towards 2000. Raymond Williams Chatto Windus,
The Hogarth Press,1983 page 146
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Acknowledgements Donald Redelmeier was supported
by a Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision
Sciences, and his underwear is provided by
various manufacturers. Steven Shumak, sadly, has
had little luck in obtaining extramural funding
but did find a loonie in the parking lot the
other day.
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Citations vs probability article is online
Lawrence S. Online or invisible. Nature
2001411521 http//external.nj.nec.com/lawrence/
papers/online-nature01/
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Thank you
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Readings
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In summary...

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Hoey, J., St-Aubin, R., Hu, A., Boutilier, C.
SPUDD Stochastic planning using decision
diagrams. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth
Conference on Uncertainty in Articial
Intelligence. (1999) 279--288Home/Search
Document Details and Download Summary Related
Articles Check
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11 documents found. Order citations weighted by
year. Representation and Recognition of Complex
Human Motion - Jesse Hoey James (2000) (Correct)
(6 citations) and Recognition of Complex Human
Motion Jesse Hoey James J. Little Department of
Computer Science2 Jesse Hoey and James J.
Little. Representation andwww.cs.ubc.ca/nest/lci/
papers/2000/little-cvpr00.pdf
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One of the citations
Previous authors have described how to use
symbolic reachability analysis to solve
ondeterministic planning problems. But
nondeterministic planning does not consider the
probability of state transitions or their cost.
Hoey et al. 7 have described a symbolic dynamic
programming algorithm for Markov decision
processes. It does consider the probability of
state transitions and their cost, and uses ADDs
to aggregate states with the same value the same
approach to state abstraction we used for A .
However, their SPUDD planner
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