Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
A section of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Section Information
This section will focus on key themes aligned to improve quality, safety, timely informtion exchange, and efficiency of patient care/resident services in health care organizations, including senior care facilities. This section will place special emphasis on performance improvement initiatives, clinical effectiveness and outcomes, patient and staff safety, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, strategies to prevent adverse and sentinel events, incident reports, and usage of interprofessional programs to enhance quality of care in health care facilities.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Emotions in Healthcare: Current and Emerging Directions (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Healthcare and Outcomes for Acute Heart Failure Patients (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Management in Different Health Conditions (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- 2nd Edition of the Expanding Scope of Music in Healthcare (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Assessment and Analysis of Healthcare Systems (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Current Strategies and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Patient-Reported Measures (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Management Topics in Medical Rehabilitation (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Healthcare and Orofacial Pain Management (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Review Research on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- New Challenges in Health Care Services among Patients with Spinal Cord Injury (Deadline: 2 August 2024)
- Interventional Cardiology as a Tool for Improving the Quality of Life and Prognosis of Cardiac Patients (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Global Perspectives on Nursing and Palliative Care for Cancer Survivors (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- The Influence of Mental Health Services on Health Outcomes and Well-Being (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Spiritual Care, Health, and Wellbeing in Palliative Care (Deadline: 4 October 2024)
- Patient Safety, Environment, and Mental Health (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Innovative Interventions to Improve Swallowing in Patients with Dysphagia and Aspiration (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Physical Therapy in Mental Health (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Innovation in Hospital Management: Strategies and Efforts for Patient and Healthcare Workers Safety and Prevention of Claims: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Quality Healthcare at the End of Life (Deadline: 31 March 2025)