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Landmarks and milestones
Clinical Chiropractic (2008) 11, 1
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EDITORIAL
Landmarks and milestones The start of a new year and, with it, a new volume of Clinical Chiropractic is generally a good excuse for looking back as well as gazing into the future. This issue of the journal is rather special as it marks several important landmarks in the journal’s history. Two weeks into 2008, we received our 1000th article. It seems impossible until I look at the shelves in my consulting room cum office and the row upon row of box files. Now might be an appropriate moment to thank all those authors who contributed to the tally and all those reviewers who helped me and my fellow editorial board members to read and appraise them. It is also 5 years since we joined forces with Elsevier Science, changing our name as we did so though not our ethos: to publish clinically relevant research to inform the clinician and improve patient care. Since that time, we have published exactly 200 articles ranging from individual case reports, often highlighting previously unreported treatment interventions, through to the randomized, controlled trials that shape clinical guidelines. And what of the next decade? It would be nice to think that we would have MedLine accreditation sometime before then; later this year would be nice! As ISS listing should follow in due course. It would be nice to appear more often and with more pages, to publish 200 articles in a single year whilst continuing to push up our standards; it would be nice to think we were still publishing case reports beside national trials and meta-analyses. Already I can identify — and the citation and download profiles confirm — those articles that have become landmark papers, and this issue has perhaps
another of those works that will still be quoted when we reach volume 20. The BISIMAN study (pp. 15—22) adds new insight into the never-ending debate regarding safety of cervical manipulation. As a clinician I have twice had patients present with ongoing strokes (both were immediately hospitalized; both made complete recoveries). I was, therefore, particularly interested to see confirmation of my own ad hoc calculations (made on the back of a file during an orthopaedics lecture in year 3 of my increasingly distant undergraduate course) regarding quoted rates of post-manipulative cerebrovascular incidents and background incidence. . .and whether there was a difference between the two. I am sure that it will do little to deter those who seek to grab sensationalist headlines through the selective use of the little literature that exists on the subject. It should though help the informed debate within the profession that continually adds to best practice guidelines and enhances both patient benefit and patient safety, all of which encapsulates the journal’s stated aims in a nutshell.
Editor Martin Young* Clinical Chiropractic, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom *Tel.: +44 1865 843418/1935 423138; fax: +44 1935 424983 E-mail address: [email protected]
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
1479-2354/$32.00 # 2008 The College of Chiropractors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.clch.2008.02.001
intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/clch
EDITORIAL
Landmarks and milestones The start of a new year and, with it, a new volume of Clinical Chiropractic is generally a good excuse for looking back as well as gazing into the future. This issue of the journal is rather special as it marks several important landmarks in the journal’s history. Two weeks into 2008, we received our 1000th article. It seems impossible until I look at the shelves in my consulting room cum office and the row upon row of box files. Now might be an appropriate moment to thank all those authors who contributed to the tally and all those reviewers who helped me and my fellow editorial board members to read and appraise them. It is also 5 years since we joined forces with Elsevier Science, changing our name as we did so though not our ethos: to publish clinically relevant research to inform the clinician and improve patient care. Since that time, we have published exactly 200 articles ranging from individual case reports, often highlighting previously unreported treatment interventions, through to the randomized, controlled trials that shape clinical guidelines. And what of the next decade? It would be nice to think that we would have MedLine accreditation sometime before then; later this year would be nice! As ISS listing should follow in due course. It would be nice to appear more often and with more pages, to publish 200 articles in a single year whilst continuing to push up our standards; it would be nice to think we were still publishing case reports beside national trials and meta-analyses. Already I can identify — and the citation and download profiles confirm — those articles that have become landmark papers, and this issue has perhaps
another of those works that will still be quoted when we reach volume 20. The BISIMAN study (pp. 15—22) adds new insight into the never-ending debate regarding safety of cervical manipulation. As a clinician I have twice had patients present with ongoing strokes (both were immediately hospitalized; both made complete recoveries). I was, therefore, particularly interested to see confirmation of my own ad hoc calculations (made on the back of a file during an orthopaedics lecture in year 3 of my increasingly distant undergraduate course) regarding quoted rates of post-manipulative cerebrovascular incidents and background incidence. . .and whether there was a difference between the two. I am sure that it will do little to deter those who seek to grab sensationalist headlines through the selective use of the little literature that exists on the subject. It should though help the informed debate within the profession that continually adds to best practice guidelines and enhances both patient benefit and patient safety, all of which encapsulates the journal’s stated aims in a nutshell.
Editor Martin Young* Clinical Chiropractic, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom *Tel.: +44 1865 843418/1935 423138; fax: +44 1935 424983 E-mail address: [email protected]
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
1479-2354/$32.00 # 2008 The College of Chiropractors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.clch.2008.02.001