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:
- Innovative Interventions to Improve Swallowing in Patients with Dysphagia and Aspiration (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Patient-Reported Measures (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Emotions in Healthcare: Current and Emerging Directions (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Innovative Approaches for Safety Culture Improvement in Healthcare Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- 2nd Edition of the Expanding Scope of Music in Healthcare (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)
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Beyond 2023 Agenda: The Role of International Partnerships and Alliances Towards Equitable Access to Care (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease (Deadline: 14 March 2025)
- Review Research on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Quality Healthcare at the End of Life (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Medical Care Services in Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Trauma Care (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Patient Experience and the Quality of Health Care (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Physical and Mental Health Interactions: An Integral Approach to a Bidirectional Relationship (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Long-Term Outcome of Anesthesia and Surgery (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Exploring the Burden on the Healthcare Service Sector Arising from Occupational Injury and Psychological Distress Caused by Poor Work Environments (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Bullying in the Workplace, Gender Inequality: Challenges for the Quality and Safety of Health Care (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Patient Safety, Environment, and Mental Health (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Adherence in Health and Rehabilitation Interventions: Advances, Innovations, and Outcomes (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Advancing Healthcare Delivery and Patient Quality of Care Through Healthcare Professionals’ Development (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Physical Therapy in Mental Health (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Spiritual Care, Health, and Wellbeing in Palliative Care (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Enhancing Gastrointestinal Tract Care: Technology Innovations to Improve Patient’s Quality of Life (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Clinical Communication in Rehabilitation (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Patient-Centered Care for Enhancing Health-Related Quality of Life: Integrating Clinical, Behavioral, and Social Determinants of Health (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
- Health Services, Health Literacy and Nursing Quality (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Moving Forward: Implementing Patient-Centered Care in Hospitals (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Physician–Patient Communication, Nursing and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 26 September 2025)
- Shared Medical Appointments and Group Consultations (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Physical Rehabilitation in Psychiatry (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
