Decision: “REJECT”

Originally posted on EC EBM:

Top 20 Reasons why referees and editors Reject medical research manuscripts

1. Statistics: inappropriate, incomplete, or insufficiently described, etc.
2. Over interpretation of the results
3. Inappropriate, suboptimal, insufficiently described methods
4. Sample too small or biased
5. Text difficult to follow, to understand
6. Insufficient or incomplete problem statement
7. Inaccurate or inconsistent data reported
8. Inadequate, incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated review of the literature
9. Insufficient data presented
10. Defective tables or figures
11. Scores insufficiently reliable or unknown reliability
12. Unimportant or irrelevant topic
13. Intervention (independent variable) insufficiently described or confusing
14. Subjects insufficiently described
15. Lack of conceptual or theoretical framework
16. Under interpretation of results; ignoring results
17. Potential confounding variables not addressed
18. Incomplete, insufficient information in abstract
19. Title not representative of the study
20. Sampling method inappropriate or insufficiently described

This is why we need a series of training days to be able to prepare a flawless manuscript.

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