About Quality and Safety in Health Care

Aims and Scope

Quality & Safety in Health Care (formerly Quality in Health Care) is a leading international peer review journal in this growing area of quality and safety improvement. It provides essential information for those wanting to reduce harm and improve patient safety and the quality of care. The journal reports and reflects research, improvement initiatives and viewpoints and other discursive papers relevant to these crucial aims with contributions from researchers, clinical professionals and managers and experts in organisational development and behaviour.

The journal covers:

- the development and integration of quality and safety initiatives into routine practice
- experience of improving practice in all sectors of health care services
- the influence of management and organisational learning on the quality and safety of clinical care
- the views of consumers and their role as promoters of improved quality and safety in health care
- research relevant to health care quality and safety from a wide range of relevant sources including non medical domains

QSHC aims to contribute actively to the debate about the quality and safety of health care by exploring subjects and ideas (from both routine clinical and managerial practice and research) which concern and inform this debate and which focus on real benefits to patients.

QSHC is owned by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, London.

David P. Stevens
Vice President for Healthcare Improvement
AAMC
Washington, D.C.
Email: david.p.stevens{at}dartmouth.edu

Editorial Office

BMJ Journals Department
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9JR
UK

Frequency

6 times a year

Launch date

1992

ISSN Quality and Safety in Health Care

1475-3898

ISSN Quality and Safety in Health Care Online

1475-3901

Readership

Clinicians, nurses, paramedics, managers, government employees, policy makers and those charged with quality improvement initiatives

Print circulation

6000 - UK 35%, Europe 20%, USA 20%, Far East 10%, Australasia 15%
Not including online only or consortia customers

Indexed by

Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)

Impact factor

The 2008 impact factor is 2.554 (ISI Web of Science)

Submitting to Quality and Safety in Health Care

All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system.

Quality and Safety in Health Care welcomes:
Original papers (clinical and basic science)
Scientific letters
Global Issues Articles
Editorials (usually commissioned)
Reviews
Innovations Articles
Education Articles
Video reports

Quality and Safety in Health Care will consider rapid review and publication for articles of outstanding interest. Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on Quality and Safety in Health Care Online. Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office

Lead times

Time from submission to first decision: 3 weeks
About 55% of submissions are rejected without external peer review
Time from acceptance to publication: 5 months (original papers)

Acceptance rate

31%

Subscriptions

Information on rates and how to subscribe

- Personal print subscribers receive access to Quality and Safety in Health Care at no additional cost
- Personal and institutional subscribers may purchase access to Quality and Safety in Health Care separately
- Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues
- Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$12 or access the whole site for 30 days for US$30

Rights

Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide [var1] with an exclusive licence to publish .
Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on Quality and Safety in Health Care.

Permissions

Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines

Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible

Supplements

Guidelines for publication of supplements to Quality and Safety in Health Care and other BMJ Journals

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Email: cfolkes{at}bmjgroup.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6057

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COPE

Quality and Safety in Health Care is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics

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Feedback

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