Aims & Scope

Aims

Hospitals (ISSN: 2813-4524) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research and insights on all aspects of hospital management, operations, and healthcare delivery. Hospitals publishes original article types including research papers, reviews, editorials, brief reports, perspectives, etc. The journal covers both fundamental and advanced topics related to the functioning and administration of hospitals, including specialized facilities, temporary and mobile hospitals, and emergency setups. Full experimental details need to be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Hospitals has no restrictions on the maximum length of research manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive.

Scope

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Hospital Administration and Management: Best practices in hospital operations, governance, leadership, and organizational culture.
• Healthcare Delivery and Patient Care: Innovations in patient care, clinical practices, multidisciplinary healthcare teams, and quality assurance.
• Hospital Infrastructure and Design: Architecture, sustainable building, equipment management, and facilities engineering.
• Healthcare Technology and Innovation: Digital transformation in hospitals, the role of artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and the integration of new medical technologies in hospital settings.
• Health Economics and Policy: Financial management, hospital funding, cost-effectiveness analyses, and healthcare policy implications.
• Human Resources and Workforce Management: Strategies for recruiting, training, and retaining healthcare professionals, and enhancing staff well-being and performance.
• Public Health and Hospital Outreach: Hospitals' roles in public health emergencies, including outbreak responses, disaster preparedness, and mobile hospital setups.
• Ethics and Patient Safety: Ethical dilemmas, patient safety protocols, risk management, and hospital legal frameworks.
• Global Health and Hospitals in Developing Settings: Challenges faced by hospitals in low-resource settings, mobile hospitals, and global efforts to improve hospital care in underserved regions.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Hospitals will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints.

Announcement and Advertisement

Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free in the News & Announcements section of the journal. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is hospitals@mdpi.com.