About Healthcare

Aims

Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.

Scope

This journal covers all topics related to all aspects of medicine and health care research. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to:

Advanced inpatients care

• Advanced medical investigation and treatment
• Experimental medicine
• Uncommon diagnostic or surgical procedures

Chronic care

• Health assessment
• Laboratory and diagnostic procedures
• Medication management
• Disease prevention
• Early diagnosis
• Treatment and comprehensive strategies
• Morbidity and mortality
• Long term outcomes
• Scoring systems and outcome prediction
• Socio-economic burden of chronic care

Critical care*

• Emergency, perioperative and intensive care
• Pediatric/neonates care
• Medical imaging, monitoring, support

Cure

Diagnosis

Health care materials

Health informatics (electronic and online based clinical studies and medical research)

Health policy

Mental health

Nursing

Prevention

Sport

Treatment

* Treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness, injury or other health condition.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Healthcare will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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