Aims & Scope

Aims

Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers) that publishes original theoretical and empirical research on all aspects of medicine and healthcare. The journal publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Technical Notes, Short Communications, etc. The journal covers all aspects of healthcare service, with an emphasis on healthcare management, health informatics, and health policy. Healthcare also publishes basic research relevant to clinical practice and patient care, encompassing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Basic research studies of interest include those using (i) real-world clinical data or settings, (ii) measured patient, population, or health system outcomes, (iii) healthcare implementation insights, and/or (iv) health policy relevance. The audience of Healthcare includes all types of caregivers and healthcare professionals, such as nurses and physicians, as well as patients.

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 containing the full details of the calculations, experimental procedures, and other relevant information can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.

Scope

This journal encompasses all topics relating to various aspects of medicine and healthcare research. Research fields of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Nursing and Clinical Care

• Acute Care;
• Long-Term Care;
• Specialty Care.

Preventive Healthcare

• Social Determinants of Health;
• Health-Lifestyle Behaviors;
• Screening Programs and Early Detection.

Quality of Care

• Medication Management;
• Patient Safety;
• Healthcare Delivery.

Healthcare Technology

• Artificial Intelligence;
• TeleHealth;
• Digital Technology;
• Health Informatics.

Healthcare System, Management, and Policy

• Healthcare Professionals;
• Healthcare Services;
• Healthcare Economics and Accessibility.

Study Types That Will Not Be Considered for Publication by Healthcare

• Validation of instruments that are unrelated to healthcare outcomes;
• Sports studies without clinical, public health, or health services relevance;
• Protocols for review (systematic or scoping review).

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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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:

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints.

Announcement and Advertisement

Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free in the News & Announcements section of the journal. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is healthcare@mdpi.com.