Peer review for medical journals: why and how?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil.
² Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental - Lisbon, Portugal.
³ Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁴ Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Samaritano Paulista - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.

Editorial

Wagner Luis Nedel et al. Crit Care Sci. 2025.

. 2025 Jun 30:37:e20250098.

doi: 10.62675/2965-2774.20250098. eCollection 2025.

¹ Department of Critical Care, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil.
² Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental - Lisbon, Portugal.
³ Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁴ Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Samaritano Paulista - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: None.

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