Less warmth (and force) at the EQUATOR

This month we lost a major force for integrity in medical research and communications when Professor Douglas Altman passed away. Many of us writers for journal publication "don't get out a lot," but we do often "visit the EQUATOR" when preparing study reports for journals--and when I say "EQUATOR," I am not referring to my friends in Latin America! I learned the sad news at the EQUATOR website (https://www.equator-network.org/). Professor Altman was a cofounder of Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR), which posts guidelines for preparing most types of reports for medical and other peer-reviewed scientific journals. He was also a member of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) panel for reports of randomized controlled trials. A recipient of the Royal Statistical Society's Bradford Hill Medal, Professor Altman coauthored (with Martin Bland of the University of York) a paper on agreement (or disagreement) between sets of data (i.e. Bland-Altman analysis; see illustration) that has been cited >40,000 times and is ranked 29th among the 100 most-cited research papers ever. For the first time, the Gutkin Manual aggregates >50 consensus guideline checklists from the EQUATOR website into a single textbook and also cites Bland-Altman analysis to show that data from two testing methods may be correlated but not in agreement. I never knew Professor Altman but owe him a great debt for his contributions to medical science. https://www.amazon.com/Writing-High-Quality-Me…/…/1498765955

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