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Peer Review at HSR

With the permission of the authors and reviewers, HSR is pleased to highlight the details and evolution of a manuscript as it travels through our review process.

“Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing and Deficiencies,” (39:3, June 2004)

Authors:
R. Tamara Konetzka, Deokhee Yi, Edward C. Norton, Kerry E. Kilpatrick

Reviewers:
Orna Intrator (Reviewer A)
Charlene Harrington (Reviewer B)

The featured manuscript, “Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing and Deficiencies,” was published in the June 2004 issue (Vol. 39, Issue 3) of HSR.

This manuscript, as initially submitted, received a request for minor revise and resubmission after the first set of reviews. HSR has two types of reviews: minor and major. Major reviews, in contrast to this example, often call for new analyses and more complex and extensive revisions.

This example was submitted BEFORE HSR's internet based submission process, ManuscriptCentral. Along with reviewer's basic written comments, ManuscriptCentral requires a more detailed scoring system such as rating articles’ originality and quality of writing. An example of the review process using ManuscriptCentral will be provided online in the future.

HSR is grateful to the authors and reviewers for their effort and understanding of this important tool helping to educate authors, reviewers and graduate level trainees.

To learn more about External Peer Review at HSR, please read the October Editorial by Co-Editor Ann Barry Flood.

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