|
NEW EMWA POSITION STATEMENT AND GUIDELINES
EMWA is pleased to announce that its position statement and
guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed
publications have now been published by Current Medical Research and
Opinion (CMRO). Please click here
to read these guidelines. In the same issue of CMRO, the EMWA
Ghostwriting Task Force has also published the findings of a Delphi
consultation process designed to explore the current problems of
ghostwriting in medical publications. Please click here to read this report.
At the EMWA conference in Malta, Adam Jacobs presented a plenary
lecture on the new EMWA guidelines on the role of medical writers in
developing peer-reviewed publications. This presentation provided an
overview the issue of ghostwriting, the processes involved in
developing the EMWA guidelines, and the recommendations of these
guidelines. For those of you who missed this talk, please click here
to download the PowerPoint presentation. Adam has also published an
article on Ghostwriting in EMWA's TWS. To read this article, please click here.
In a recent issue of FastTrack, a newsletter from Current Medical
Research and Opinion (CMRO), EMWA members, Adam Jacobs and Liz Wager,
have both contributed articles of particular reevance to medical
writers. Adam's contribution is an article
titled, "Professional Medical Writers and Medical Publications: The
Importance of Ethical Guidelines". This article tackles the issue of
ethical medical writing and the new EMWA guidelines. Liz
Wager's article, entitled, "Vancouver Group’ Journals Will Require
Trial Registration from 2005", alerts the reader to the recent
announcement by the Vancouver Group of journals (i.e. The
Lancet, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal
Medicine, and the BMJ) that, in order for a trial to be published, it
must have been registered.
|
Ghostwriting guidelines
