Quality & Safety in Health Care

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About Quality & Safety in Health Care

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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.

Editor-in-Chief	David P. Stevens Vice President for Healthcare Improvement AAMC Washington, D.C. Email: david.p.stevens{at}dartmouth.edu
Editorial Office	BMJ Publishing Group BMA House Tavistock Square London, WC1H 9JR, UK Email: qshc{at}bmjgroup.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6439 Fax +44 (0)20 7388 6668
Frequency	6 times a year plus supplements
Launch date	1992
ISSN QSHC	1475-3898
ISSN QSHC Online	1470-7934
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%
Indexed by	Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)
Impact factor	2.016 (ISI Web of Science) (2007)
Submitting to QSHC	All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system. QSHC welcomes papers relevant to quality and safety improvement:: Original articles reporting research Editorials Viewpoints Discursive papers Quality improvement reports Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on QSHC Online Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office
Lead times	Time from submission to first decision: up to 15 weeks About 35% of submissions are rejected without external peer review Time from acceptance to publication: approximately 6 months
Acceptance rate	31%
Subscriptions	Information on rates and how to subscribe - Personal print subscribers receive access to QSHC Online at no additional cost - Institutional subscribers may purchase access to QSHC Online separately - Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues - Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$8 or access the whole site for 30 days for US$25
Rights	Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide QSHC with an exclusive licence to publish. Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on QSHC Online.
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
Reprints	Reprints contact details Reprint Order Form For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission. The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.
Royalties from Reprint Sales	For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission. The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.
Supplements	Guidelines for publication of supplements to QSHC and other BMJ Journals For further details please contact Claire Jura: Email: journals{at}bmjgroup.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6057
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