Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi
Managing Editor, The Journal of Tehran University Heart Center
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There are some examples of review forms in the book by Irene Hames:

Peer Review & Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals published recently by Blackwell and ALPSP (ISBN 978-1-4051-3159-9)

Liz Wager
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From the viewpoint of a reviewer...

Wearing my reviewer hat (as I have a couple times this week), I'm commenting on a trend I've observed (with an admittedly small n):

Decreasingly grateful communications to reviewers. As we move to the much-more-convenient-for-editorial-staff automated review systems, we should be vigilant about inconveniencing reviewers. Do I really have to give you my full mailing address before I can give you a good review? Some systems won't let you even look at the ms until you've "completed all fields".

Mind you, I'll review anything on physician health anyone sends me, but I do generally get treated much more nicely by people who pay me to do this kind of work for them than by those who ask me to volunteer. With exponentially growing #s of mss, this can represent considerable work for some reviewers, and we should be super-nice to these least-rewarded, but essential participants in our publication process.

Erica Frank