Quality of Healthcare and Patient Safety Across Disciplines: Innovations, Evidence, and Practice

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 499

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Quality of care and patient safety are key pillars of an effective and sustainable health system. Health professionals', especially nurses’, contribution to promoting safety, reducing errors, maintaining high standards of care, and improving patient outcomes has emerged as critical. The increasing complexity of the services provided, the challenges of the modern clinical environment, and the need for continuous improvement of care processes make it imperative to investigate and document good practices that enhance quality and safety.

This Special Issue aims to bring together original research studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses that focus on:

  • Factors affecting the quality of nursing care,
  • Interventions to improve patient safety.
  • Contribution of education, leadership, and organizational culture to the promotion of high-quality care.

Studies of particular interest include those that examine the implementation of evidence-based interventions;  strategies to reduce errors and complications; health policies aimed at ensuring quality care; and educational and professional empowerment programs for health professionals. Interested researchers and clinicians are invited to submit papers that focus on the development, implementation, or evaluation of practices that improve patient safety and enhance the role of healthcare professionals in modern clinical reality.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue titled "Quality of Healthcare and Patient Safety Across Disciplines: Innovations, Evidence, and Practice." This issue seeks high-quality submissions that address the interconnections between care quality and patient safety in diverse healthcare contexts. We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses that explore clinical innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, leadership practices, policy implementation, and other factors that influence the delivery of safe and effective care. Contributions from nursing, medicine, public health, and allied health disciplines are strongly encouraged.

This Special Issue aims to critically examine the interplay between quality of care and patient safety within contemporary healthcare systems. Adopting a multidisciplinary lens, it seeks to bring together empirical research, systematic reviews, and theoretical analyses that illuminate how clinical practices, organizational structures, and interprofessional collaboration influence both care quality and patient outcomes. The issue aspires to advance scholarly discourse and inform evidence-based strategies for improving safety and effectiveness in health service delivery.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Factors that influence the quality of care (e.g., professional competence, workload, staff satisfaction)
  • Leadership and promoting safety culture in health systems (role of clinical and administrative leadership)
  • Educational initiatives to strengthen safety culture (training programs, enhanced safety skills development in health professionals)
  • Prevention of healthcare-associated infections (e.g., CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, prevention standards, and implementation of protocols)
  • Falls prevention in clinical and long-term care settings (prevention interventions, risk assessment tools, safety policies)
  • Evidence-based interventions for improving clinical practice (implementation of evidence-based practices, quality improvement)
  • Digital technologies, innovation, and improving patient safety (e-health, tele-health, monitoring systems)

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Evangelos Fradelos
Dr. Aikaterini Toska
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • quality of care
  • patient safety
  • ethics in healthcare
  • interdisciplinary collaboration
  • evidence-based practice
  • clinical governance
  • healthcare quality improvement
  • nursing practice
  • patient values
  • health systems safety

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Mapping the Scientific Landscape Between Respiratory Conditions and Costs: A Bibliometric Analysis
by Ioannis Ch. Lampropoulos, Foteini Malli, Eleftherios Aggelopoulos, Angeliki Tsameti, Erasmia Rouka, Zoe Daniil and Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis
Healthcare 2025, 13(18), 2293; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13182293 - 13 Sep 2025
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Introduction: The objective of the present study was to systematically explore the scientific literature to examine the relationship between respiratory diseases and economic cost. The research question focused on identifying the thematic, methodological, and temporal trends that link these two scientific fields. Methods: [...] Read more.
Introduction: The objective of the present study was to systematically explore the scientific literature to examine the relationship between respiratory diseases and economic cost. The research question focused on identifying the thematic, methodological, and temporal trends that link these two scientific fields. Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in the PubMed database using the terms “Pulmonology OR respiratory” AND “Cost”, which returned 30,274 publications from 1921 up to April 2025. For the bibliometric review, VOSviewer software was used to create bibliometric maps through the tools of network, overlay, and density visualization. Results: The analysis revealed six clusters, which include clinical prognosis, pandemics, pharmacoeconomics, epidemiology, chronic conditions, and health services research. After 2010, there was a particularly important increase in academic research related to pulmonology and cost, with this rise being especially evident during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent studies have increasingly focused on cost-effectiveness, quality of life, hospitalization, and multimorbidity. Discussion: The scientific field of respiratory conditions is undergoing a substantial transformation, shifting from traditional clinical descriptions to an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates economic evaluation. This evolution highlights the need for strategies based on economically informed decisions and effective public health policy making. The term “economic cost” in this study refers to both direct costs (e.g., hospitalization and treatment) and indirect economic impacts, such as resource allocation and healthcare burden. Conclusions: The findings demonstrate that research linking respiratory diseases and economic cost is expanding rapidly, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, and is characterized by interdisciplinary approaches that combine clinical, epidemiological, and economic perspectives. This trend underlines the importance of integrating cost-effectiveness considerations into respiratory healthcare policies and highlights the need for collaborative strategies to ensure sustainable and efficient health systems. Full article
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