Clinical Guidelines in the Health Area

Dear Colleagues,

Clinical guidelines are informational documents that include recommendations aimed at optimizing patient care. Evidence-based clinical guidelines are built on systematic reviews of scientific evidence, high-quality randomized clinical trials, and an assessment of the benefits and harms of different healthcare options. A large volume of information on and variability in the quality of scientific information have been generated in recent years in the area of health, so there is a need to create syntheses that facilitate access to this information and allow for scientific recommendations based on evidence that can provide support for the scientific quality of decision making, for health professionals, managers, and patients. This Special Issue of Life will be dedicated to publishing the best articles that reflect efforts and innovations related to clinical guidelines in the area of health. In this Special Issue, we hope to bring together the best clinical guideline articles that reflect the best current scientific evidence. All submissions will be selected and peer-reviewed to ensure their quality and relevance.

Dr. Leonardo Roever
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Zoccai
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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Life is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2600 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.