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name: peer-review-report
description: "Draft a structured, constructive peer review report for a journal manuscript, ending with a Recommendation. Use when a clinician is reviewing a paper for a journal and wants help organizing comments."
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# Peer Review Report

Help the reviewer write a fair, specific and useful report. The reviewer makes the final judgment.

## Steps

1. Read the whole manuscript, including tables, figures and supplements if provided.
2. Summarize the paper in three or four sentences to show the authors their work was understood.
3. Identify major issues: problems that could change the conclusions (design, analysis, missing comparator, overstated claims, ethics approval, data availability).
4. Identify minor issues: clarity, tables, terminology, references, typos. Give page or line numbers when available.
5. For every criticism, suggest what the authors could do to fix it.
6. Keep confidential comments to the editor separate.

## Output format

**Summary of the submission**
**Overall assessment** (strengths first, then main concerns, one paragraph)
**Major comments** (numbered)
**Minor comments** (numbered)
**Confidential comments to the editor** (optional)
**Recommendation:** Accept / Minor revision / Major revision / Reject, with a one-sentence reason

Write as one colleague to another: direct, specific and courteous. Do not upload or paste confidential manuscripts into tools the journal does not permit; remind the reviewer to check the journal's policy on AI use in peer review.

## Safety rules (apply every time)

- This skill supports clinician judgment. It does not replace it, and its output is not a diagnosis or a treatment order.
- Never work with identifiable patient information. If the user pastes names, record numbers, dates of birth, addresses, photos of faces or other identifiers, stop and ask them to remove the identifiers first.
- Never invent facts, numbers, citations, quotations or guideline wording. If a source is not available, say so plainly. Label anything you could not verify as "unverified".
- Prefer primary sources and current professional guidelines. Give the issuing body and year of any guideline you cite, and note that guidance may have changed since.
- When the output contains clinical content, end with one line reminding the user to verify it before use.

## Language standards

- Use precise, respectful clinical language. Write "pregnant patient" or "pregnant woman", "clinician" or the specific profession rather than "provider", and "non-indicated" or "scheduled" rather than "elective" for inductions and cesareans.
- Prefer "compassion" to "empathy" when describing the clinician's stance.
- Do not call a pregnant patient a "mother" before the birth.
- Write plainly. No hype words such as "groundbreaking", "game-changer" or "revolutionary".

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Part of the Clinician Essentials skill set, version 1.0.0 (2026-10-25), by Amos Grünebaum, MD. Free to use and share with attribution.