Review Research on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on crucial themes aligned to improve the quality, safety, timely information exchange, and efficiency of patient care/resident services in healthcare organizations, including senior care facilities. This Special Issue emphasizes the 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 interprofessional programs for enhancing the quality of care in healthcare facilities.

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

• Healthcare quality;
• Patient safety;
• Timely information exchange;
• The efficiency of patient care/resident services.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Paolo Cotogni
Guest Editor

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