Innovations in Peer Review: The Role of Collaboration Management Technology in Medical Publishing

摘要

Science and Clinical Policy of the American College of Cardiology Foundation, Washington, DC;Chief Medical Officer, HealthGate Data Corp., Burlington, MA and Medical Director, Center for Healthcare Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center. Kansas City, KS;rnIn an increasingly wired world where information about advances in diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions can be distributed nearly instantaneously to a world-wide audience, the demand and expectation for prompt (if not immediate) updates to peer-reviewed clinical recommendations from authoritative organizations is high and growing.rnYet, the complex processes needed to assure accurate development and update of peer-reviewed clinical recommendations are inherently time-consuming and can together pose unwanted delays in the distribution of timely updates.