title: Writing for publication--a guide for new authors.
abstract: Health care practitioners who are inexperienced in writing for publication are sometimes daunted by the publication process and fail to submit their work on quality improvement to a journal. New authors can acquire experience in writing a paper by working through a systematic thought process that includes consideration of what journal readers and editors want and if the work is ready for publication. The most important part of writing a paper is to think through the key ideas and messages for readers and then to organize the ideas into a logical structure. Writing clear answers to 10 key questions may be one way to start the process.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Quality Quest, Romsey, Hampshire, UK. ndixon@HQQ.co.uk
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authors.lastname: Dixon
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011643:Publishing; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014956:Writing