Disease relevance of Peer Review

• Somatostatin bleeding esophageal varices: peer review, anyone [1]?
• It is based on a review of 30 articles published in peer review journals conducted by a task force appointed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine to develop practice parameters for use of APAP devices for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) [2].

Psychiatry related information on Peer Review

• Findings from two studies of the utilization of the mental health benefit under the Washington, D.C., area Blue Cross and Blue Shield Federal Employees Program suggest that diagnostic information submitted to insurance companies on claims forms is often inaccurate and therefore of little use for claims or peer review [3].
• Residential treatment centers: peer review by APA and CHAMPUS [4].

High impact information on Peer Review

• Peer review. NSF scores low on using own criteria [5].
• Data from peer review organizations representing 7 states were used to assemble a National Registry of AF (NRAF) consisting of 1733 Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 to 95 years who had nonrheumatic AF and were not prescribed warfarin at hospital discharge [6].
• The National Practitioner Data Bank and the quality of peer review [7].
• Effects of peer review and editing on the readability of articles published in Annals of Internal Medicine [8].
• CONCLUSIONS--Gender differences exist in editor and reviewer characteristics at JAMA with no apparent effect on the final outcome of the peer review process or acceptance for publication [9].

Biological context of Peer Review

• A peer review panel made up of experts in toxicology, epidemiology, cancer mode of action (MOA), cancer mechanisms, carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, dose-response, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cancer and noncancer methods, pharmacokinetic modeling and acrylonitrile, met on 22-23 September 2003 in Cincinnati, OH [10].
• METHODS: We analyzed thirteen different kinds of missense mutations in the second intradiscal loop of peripherin/RDS, previously reported in peer review journals [11].
• AAPM Task Group 103 report on peer review in clinical radiation oncology physics [12].

Associations of Peer Review with chemical compounds

• Most studies which evaluated milnacipran were of short (4 to 8 weeks) duration and results were not published in full with rigorous peer review [13].
• Most clinical studies with tacrolimus have neither been published in their entirety nor subjected to extensive peer review; there is also a paucity of published randomised investigations of tacrolimus versus cyclosporin, particularly in renal transplantation [14].
• A system of peer review for articles and promising techniques still must be developed, but a glimpse of topics and search engines is available for comment and review on the EPA Region IV-supported website (http://wrrc.p2pays.org/) [15].
• Re: "Reevaluation of the cancer potency factor of toxaphene: recommendation from a peer review" [16].
• The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an antitrust plaintiff does not need to prove that defendant physicians and hospitals engaged in interstate commerce in order to assert federal jurisdiction over his claim that peer review proceedings against him violated the law [17].

Gene context of Peer Review

• Peer review and NICE COPD guidelines [18].
• The success of the 3rd International Conference on HLA-G reflects the interest and tremendous work of the many research teams which, over the years, contributed to the publication of more than 500 peer-review articles [19].
• METHODS: The authors report on the design, implementation, and outcome of the peer review workshop for PGY-3 and PGY-4 psychiatry residents [20].
• Gossip and peer review at NSF [21].
• Evaluating peer reviews. Pilot testing of a grading instrument [22].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Peer Review

• A low-cost, continuous peer review feedback method was used to promote resident physicians' compliance with nine preventive care guidelines at the ambulatory care clinic at the Marshall University School of Medicine (Huntington, West Virginia) [23].

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