Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Health Services in Primary Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, and Self-care Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2027 | Viewed by 99
Editors
Interests: health; health promotion; health disparities; health inequality; health care management; preventive medicine; chronic disease management; health statistics; health management; mental health
Interests: healthcare management; health economics; health technology assessment; health policy; public health; epidemiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Health Services in Primary Care”. Primary care is the first point of contact with health systems and is central to prevention, chronic disease management and continuity of care. As health systems face rising patient expectations, workforce pressures, digital transformation and the need for equitable access, research on satisfaction and service quality is timely and essential.
This Special Issue aims to advance evidence on how patient experiences, expectations and perceptions can inform the assessment and improvement of primary healthcare services. It focuses on quality, accessibility, safety, efficiency, continuity and patient-centered care in primary care settings, in line with Healthcare’s scope.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Patient satisfaction and patient experience;
- Quality assessment and improvement;
- Access, equity and continuity of care;
- Patient–provider communication and trust;
- Digital health, telemedicine and innovation;
- Healthcare management and policy interventions.
Both original research articles and review papers are welcome.
We would also appreciate your indication of interest in contributing a manuscript, along with a tentative title or topic.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Constantinos Togas
Dr. Christos Ntais
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- patient satisfaction
- patient experience
- primary care
- quality of health services
- patient-centered care
- access to care
- continuity of care
- health equity
- quality improvement
- healthcare management
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