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Author Guidelines

As of May 1, 2025, the Southwest Resipiratory and Critical Care Chronicles is now known as The Southwest Journal of Medicine. Please find our new website located here. We are no longer accepting submissions through this website. If you wish to make a submission, please do so here. Thank you. 

Reviews

These reviews should provide a focused summary of imporatnt topics in respiratory and critical care medicine. In general authors should avoid broad overviews such as "Pulmonary Hypertension" and focus on more limited aspects of this topic such as "Pulmonary Hypertension in Scleroderma." These articles can have up to 2800 words, 30 references, and 4 tables/figures.

Medicine and Health Policy

These articles should discuss important topics that involve public policy and/or the health care system and clinical medicine. The writer may take contoversial positions provided he or she makes it clear that the discussion represents his or her opinion. The articles can have up to 2400 words and 10 references. Tables and/or figures may be used as needed.

Case Reports

Case reports should present unusual diagnoses, atypical presentations of common diagnoses, or unique management approaches. The case report can have up to 1200 words, 10 references, and 4 figures/tables. They should include a narrative abstract. Case Report submissions should be limited to 4 or fewer authors.

Case Series

These articles should provide clinical information about 2 or more patients with similar clinical diagnoses. Patient information should be summarized in a table. Please limit the number of tables and or figures to 4.

Case Report and Focused Review

Articles in this section should present information about a case and provide a longer but focused review of the case. The abstract should summarize the case and important information in the discussion.

Medical News

Medical news articles should provide the reader with an update about topics which have recently received considerable attention in the media.

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