Clinical Care
A section of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Section Information
Clinical care encompasses the direct management, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients across all care settings—from initial response interventions in the field to complex inpatient therapies and ongoing outpatient follow-up. This section addresses how clinicians assess, diagnose, and deliver evidence-based interventions, as well as how care teams coordinate to optimize patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
Clinical Care covers three principal domains:
- Prehospital and Emergency Care:
Rapid assessment, stabilization, and transport by emergency medical services, first responders, and mobile health units. - In-Hospital and Acute Care:
Diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring in emergency departments, intensive care units, surgical suites, and specialty wards. - Outpatient and Ambulatory Care:
Scheduled clinics, day procedures, telehealth consultations, rehabilitation services, transitional care programs, and follow-up management.
Core Topics—We welcome submissions on, but not limited to the following:
- Patient assessment tools, diagnostic algorithms, and point-of-care testing.
- Clinical decision support systems, care pathways, and standardized protocols.
- Acute and chronic condition management across age groups and specialties.
- Interprofessional team models, workflow optimization, and handoff processes.
- Innovations in telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and virtual triage.
- Transitional care, discharge planning, and strategies to reduce readmissions.
- Quality improvement initiatives, safety interventions, and performance metrics.
- Comparative effectiveness studies, pragmatic trials, and implementation research.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Airway Management in Anesthesia: Progress, Precision, and the Path Forward (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Clinical Strategies for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections (Deadline: 24 July 2026)
- Advances in Manual Therapy: Diagnostics, Prevention and Treatment (Deadline: 29 July 2026)
- Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management (Deadline: 1 August 2026)
- Research on Hearing and Balance Healthcare (Deadline: 10 October 2026)
- Health Technology Assessment for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Frontline Imaging: Advances and Applications of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Integrated Rehabilitation Services: From Clinical Settings to Communities and Homes (Deadline: 6 November 2026)
- Progress in Clinical Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation (Deadline: 15 November 2026)
- Challenges in Emergency Medicine (Deadline: 20 November 2026)
- Innovations in Physiotherapy for Children Living with Mental Disabilities (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
- Otorhinolaryngology in Modern Healthcare: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives (Deadline: 20 December 2026)
- Anesthesia, Pain Management, and Intensive Care in Oncologic Surgery (Deadline: 25 December 2026)
- Lifelong Care in Congenital Heart Disease: From Pediatric Intervention to Adult Wellness (Deadline: 30 December 2026)
- Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy in Modern Rehabilitation (Deadline: 7 January 2027)
- Sleep Disorders Management in Primary Care—Second Edition (Deadline: 25 January 2027)
- Optimizing Health Outcomes: Rehabilitation for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Advances in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk: Biomarkers, Monitoring, and Early Detection (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Innovative Assessments and Interventions for Upper Extremity Recovery to Improve Daily Function After Acquired Brain Injury (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Innovations in Advanced Practice Nursing: Integrating Simulation and Critical Care (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Transforming Care Through Clinical Nursing Information Systems and Standardized Nursing Terminologies: Optimizing Data-Driven Care in Hospital and Community Settings (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Advances and Innovations in Nursing: Emerging Evidence, Practice, and Future Directions (Deadline: 1 February 2027)
- Innovations in Chronic Patient Management: Monitoring, Evaluation and Rehabilitation—2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
- Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Kidney Disease (Deadline: 2 March 2027)
- Advancing Nursing Innovation Through Human-Centered Design (HCD), Equity-Centered Design (ECD) and Design Thinking (DT) (Deadline: 6 March 2027)
- Sports Injuries, Trauma, and Functional Recovery in Orthopedics (Deadline: 12 March 2027)
- Head and Neck Lymphedema in the Third Millennium: Innovations in Diagnosis, Therapy, and Healthcare Impact (Deadline: 19 March 2027)
- Person-Centered Care and Rehabilitation in Aging and Dementia Care (Deadline: 26 March 2027)
- Comprehensive Nursing Care in Transplantology (Deadline: 30 March 2027)
- Nursing Care in the ICU—2nd Edition (Deadline: 10 April 2027)
- Innovations in Physiotherapy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain (Deadline: 21 April 2027)
- New Tools and Technologies in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
- Rehabilitation for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
- Physiotherapy Interventions on Pain Management, Functionality and Well-Being (Deadline: 30 April 2027)
- Clinical Management of Chronic Pain in Older People (Deadline: 10 May 2027)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
