Assessing quality of economic submissions to the BMJ

Abstract
EDITOR,--Health economics literature has increased exponentially in the past 10 years.1 Some authors have expressed concern at the variability of its quality2 3 and the absence of written policies on economic submissions.4 We report the results of a pilot study to investigate the BMJ's practices concerning peer review of economic articles and the desirability of criteria for economic submissions. To assess the difference between accepted and rejected economic manuscripts …