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:
- 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)
- Innovation in Hospital Management: Strategies and Efforts for Patient and Healthcare Workers Safety and Prevention of Claims: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Moving Forward: Implementing Patient-Centered Care in Hospitals (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
- Physician–Patient Communication, Nursing and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 26 September 2025)
- Medical Care Services in Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Trauma Care (Deadline: 26 September 2025)
- Shared Medical Appointments and Group Consultations (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Patient Experience and the Quality of Health Care (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
- Health Care Professionals' Role in Developing Quality and Patient Safety (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
- The Impact of Exercise and Physical Activity on Quality of Life (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
- Patient Safety and Psychosocial Risk in the Workplace (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- Physical Rehabilitation in Psychiatry (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Beyond 2030 Agenda: The Role of International Partnerships and Alliances Towards Equitable Access to Care (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Review Research on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Adherence in Health and Rehabilitation Interventions: Advances, Innovations, and Outcomes (Deadline: 15 April 2026)
- Bridging the Gap in Nephrology Nursing: Addressing the Growing Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Healthcare (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Physical and Mental Health Interactions: An Integral Approach to a Bidirectional Relationship (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Long-Term Outcome of Anesthesia and Surgery (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Exploring the Burden on the Healthcare Service Sector Arising from Occupational Injury and Psychological Distress Caused by Poor Work Environments (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Bullying in the Workplace, Gender Inequality: Challenges for the Quality and Safety of Health Care (Deadline: 20 May 2026)
- Advancing Healthcare Delivery and Patient Quality of Care Through Healthcare Professionals’ Development (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Quality of Healthcare and Patient Safety Across Disciplines: Innovations, Evidence, and Practice (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Physical Therapy in Mental Health (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Dental Research and Innovation: Shaping the Future of Oral Health (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- The Interplay Between Staff Wellbeing, Burnout, and Patient Safety in Healthcare (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
