Authorship in American Family Physician

摘要

It is especially difficult when writing for AFP because of the added stipulations we ask for, such as using selected evidence-based resources, creating a table of key clinical recommendations that is rated based on our Strength of Evidence Taxonomy, writing a patient education handout, and responding to pages of peer reviewer comments. In fact, the writing is secondary to several other, more important factors: 1 having clinical expertise and being familiar with current thinking on the topic, along with all its nuances and controversial points; 2 comprehensively searching the medical literature; 3 being familiar with high-quality sources of evidence-based, clinical information; 4 critically evaluating the information; 5 synthesizing the information in a coherent way; 6 being familiar with how to navigate the peer review process; and 7 conveying clinical information to our primary care audience in a practical, accessible way.