6 Tips to Speed up your Medical Editing Process

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6 Tips to Speed up your Medical Editing Process
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• As a medical writer, your task is not only to
  write scientific research papers but also to
  catch and correct all the errors in writing,
  large and small.
• Its your job to make sure that months or even
  years of hard work you put in writing doesnt go
  waste by small imperfections that can make a bad
  impression on the journal editor.
• Even a trifling mistake can distract the readers
  from the overall quality of your writing. 

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• For example, if you forget to define an
  abbreviation, if one of your collaborators
  hyphenates an investigational drug name while the
  others do not, the journal editor and other
  authorities might lose trust in your data and
  research document.
• Medical editing is the last task in scientific
  writing but can take up a major chunk of your
  time. And if you are not careful about doing it
  right, it may cost you approval by the journal.
• Deadlines are near and pressure intense! In such
  a scenario, how will you ensure timely submission
  of your paper with perfect writing?

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Checklist of the things you need to check while
editing your document
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1) Follow the appropriate style guide

• The most common style guide for academic
  and scientific writing is the AMA Manual of Style
  (10th edition, 2007), published by the American
  Medical Association.
• If your clients use a particular style guide,
  learn that style. Create different customised
  style sheets for different clients. In this way,
  you wont have to refer back to the guide
  repeatedly for rules and regulations of that
  style.

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2) Pay attention to the abbreviations

• When you use an abbreviation the first time in a
  document, write it in full followed by the
  abbreviation in parentheses. After that, use only
  the abbreviation. However, for regulatory
  documents, define the abbreviation in the
  synopsis as well.
• If you use a lot of abbreviations in your
  document, its advisable to create a table of
  abbreviations at the beginning of the document.
  Make this table of abbreviations before you write
  your research document. In this way, you wont
  miss out on any abbreviation and save time while
  editing the document.

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3) Have consistency in numerals 

• The usually followed AMA style of writing
  requires numbers to be written as numerals.
• For example, 3 instead of three except at the
  beginning of a sentence or when consecutive
  numerals would cause confusion.
• AMA style does not use commas in large numbers
  and asks to use narrow spaces between clusters of
  three digits (eg, 35 000 rather than 35,000).

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4) Check for the overall consistency

• Should section headings be capitalized in your
  document?
• What about the table and figure titles?
• Whatever be your choice, make it consistent
  throughout the document and always check again at
  the end. 

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5) Pay attention to the preferred terminology

• You must use words and phrases with care in
  medical writing.
• For example, people enrolled in a clinical trial
  study are called subjects or  participants.
  You cant use the term patients for them as
  they are not receiving any medical treatment.

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6) Remove notes, comments and place markers

• After manually editing your document, use
  Microsoft Word to perform an extra check on the
  changes you make. Any comments or notes on the
  tracked changes must be removed before finalising
  your document for submission.
• Last but not least use software to aid in your
  medical editing process. You should not rely on
  the software program alone as it wont check the
  accuracy of the scientific data or craft a
  coherent message in a regulatory submission.

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• Good software provides those fresh pair of
  digital eyes and gives you the confidence to
  correct your mistakes quickly and easily, saving
  time and allowing you to focus on higher aspects
  of content and language.
• So, next time when you sit down to edit your
  written scientific document, keep this medical
  editing checklist in mind and take help of
  reliable software to automate and correct the
  small mistakes that take up your time. Looking
  for experts to help contact our medical editing
  services experts at Cognibrain.

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