About Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB)

Aims and Scope

For over 40 years, DTB has provided rigorous and independent evaluations of, and practical advice on, individual treatments and the overall management of disease for doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.

DTB was started in 1962. From the outset, it has provided healthcare professionals with independent, clear, reliable information and advice to help ensure patients get the best care. DTB conclusions represent a synthesis of the best available medical evidence with opinions from a wide range of commentators.

Published monthly by the BMJ Group, DTB is wholly independent of industry, Government and regulatory authorities and does not carry any display advertising or accept any form of commercial sponsorship.

DTB provides articles based on a synthesis of evidence with opinions from a wide range of specialist and generalist commentators, typically over 40 individuals and organisations for each article.

Over the years, DTB has initiated successful campaigns for the removal or restriction of medicines that it could not recommend, prompted withdrawal of excessive promotional claims and exposed fundamental weaknesses in certain prescribing practice.

Surveys of our readership have consistently shown that readers find DTB authoritative and influential in relation to their decisions, recommendations or advice on treatments.

These are just a few of the examples of why DTB is regarded as an indispensable part of evidence-based clinical practice and has been described as both essential reading for practising doctors and as a key information source by the House of Commons Health Select Committee in the UK.

Editor

Ike Iheanacho
Email: dtbeditor{at}bmjgroup.com

Editors

Please see the Editorial information

Editorial Office

BMJ Journals Department
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9JR
UK

DTB, BMJ Journals
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9JR, UK

Email: dtb{at}bmjgroup.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6885
Fax +44 (0)20 7554 6885

Frequency

12 times a year

Launch date

1962

ISSN DTB

0012-6543

ISSN DTB Online

1755-5248

Readership

Includes general practititoners and hospital doctors, medical students, pharmacists, nurse prescribers and other allied healthcare professionals

Print circulation

Indexed by

Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)

Impact factor

Submitting to DTB

All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system.

DTB welcomes:
Original papers (clinical and basic science)
Scientific letters
Global Issues Articles
Editorials (usually commissioned)
Reviews
Innovations Articles
Education Articles
Video reports

DTB will consider rapid review and publication for articles of outstanding interest. Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on DTB Online. Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office

Lead times

Time from submission to first decision: 3 weeks
About 55% of submissions are rejected without external peer review
Time from acceptance to publication: 5 months (original papers)

Acceptance rate

0

Subscriptions

Information on rates and how to subscribe

- Personal print subscribers receive access to DTB at no additional cost
- Personal and institutional subscribers may purchase access to DTB separately
- Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues
- Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$12 or access the whole site for 30 days for US$30

Rights

Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide [var1] with an exclusive licence to publish .
Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on DTB.

Permissions

Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines

Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible

Supplements

Guidelines for publication of supplements to DTB and other BMJ Journals

For further details please contact Richard Sands:
Email: rsands{at}bmjgroup.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6057

Advertising

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Email: ecurrer{at}bmj.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6181

For information regarding web advertising and sponsorship of email @lerts
contact Simon Walker
Email: swalker{at}bmj.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6350

COPE

DTB is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics

Equator

Feedback

DTB welcomes feedback on the journal and this site

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