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:
- Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Current Strategies and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Occupational Health and Quality of Life of Health Care Workers in “Return to Work” Stage (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- The 10th Anniversary of Healthcare—Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Management Topics in Medical Rehabilitation (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- New Challenges in Health Care Services among Patients with Spinal Cord Injury (Deadline: 10 February 2024)
- Innovation in Hospital Management: Strategies and Efforts for Patient and Healthcare Workers Safety and Prevention of Claims (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Global Perspectives on Nursing and Palliative Care for Cancer Survivors (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
- Quality Healthcare at the End of Life (Deadline: 26 April 2024)
- Update on Malpractice and Medical Liability (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- 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)
- Patient-Reported Measures (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)
- Interventional Cardiology as a Tool for Improving the Quality of Life and Prognosis of Cardiac Patients (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)
- Innovative Interventions to Improve Swallowing in Patients with Dysphagia and Aspiration (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
