Talk:Medical ghostwriter

Guidelines from International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) for determining authorship of and contributorship to medical journal articles.
Reading this article, I was surprised to see that the Vancouver Group Requirements (not the "Vancouver Style" for medical journal article citations, that's a separate issue) for determining who is an author of a medical journal article, who is a contributor to a medical journal article, and where these guidelines may be found are completely absent from the article. That is a grievous omission.

As a degreed technical writer active in assisting physicians, surgeons and other medical researchers in gaining professional recognition for their original research, I feel that any article dealing with "medical ghostwriting" is fatally flawed unless the issue of hard and fast guidelines for determining and crediting authorship and contributorship in a medical journal article is dealt with in detail. It's an easy issue to resolve, and the guidelines for dealing with it are so concise they can be quoted verbatim in a Wikipedia article. Which I did.

This article NOW (after the changes I made) equips the reader to be able to say who is an author of a medical journal article - using the very same guidelines medicine uses to establish that same fact. The reader is also now able to determine in general terms who is a contributor to a medical journal article using the same guidelines medicine uses to establish that fact. Finally, the previously undealt-with issue of how authorship and contributorship guidelines are enforced, who draws them up and who polices them is now dealt with in the text.loupgarous (talk) 10:58, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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