The Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal welcomes original, ethical, evidence-based, and professionally relevant manuscripts from healthcare quality professionals, researchers, clinicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health experts, healthcare managers, faculty members, research scholars, and allied health professionals.
Authors may submit manuscripts related to healthcare quality improvement, patient safety, clinical governance, hospital administration, healthcare management, public health, digital health, quality audits, accreditation, patient experience, healthcare policy, and allied health sciences.
Author Guidelines
Authors should prepare their manuscripts carefully before submission. The manuscript should be original, unpublished, properly referenced, ethically prepared, and relevant to healthcare quality, patient safety, healthcare management, or allied health practice.
- The manuscript must be original and should not be under consideration by another journal.
- The topic should be relevant to healthcare quality, patient safety, hospital administration, clinical governance, or allied health sciences.
- The article should contain a clear title, abstract, keywords, introduction, objectives, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, and references where applicable.
- All sources, data, tables, figures, guidelines, reports, and healthcare standards must be properly cited.
- Authors must protect patient identity, clinical confidentiality, and institutional privacy where applicable.
- The language should be clear, academic, professional, and suitable for healthcare publication.
Suitable Manuscript Types
Subject Areas for Submission
The journal accepts manuscripts from a wide range of healthcare quality and allied health fields. Authors should ensure that the manuscript topic fits the journal scope before submission.
- Healthcare quality improvement and quality assurance
- Patient safety, adverse event prevention, and risk management
- Hospital administration, healthcare leadership, and service management
- Clinical governance, clinical audit, and professional accountability
- Healthcare accreditation, standards, compliance, and institutional quality systems
- Public health quality, community health, and health system strengthening
- Nursing quality, allied health practice, and multidisciplinary care improvement
- Infection prevention, medication safety, and clinical risk reduction
- Patient experience, satisfaction, communication, and patient-centred care
- Digital health, healthcare analytics, electronic records, and quality monitoring tools
- Healthcare ethics, policy, regulation, and health service delivery
- Medical education, professional training, and healthcare workforce quality
Manuscript Structure
| Title | The title should be clear, concise, informative, and directly related to the healthcare quality or patient safety topic. |
| Abstract | The abstract should summarize the background, objective, methodology, major findings, practical relevance, and conclusion. |
| Keywords | Authors should provide relevant keywords related to healthcare quality, patient safety, clinical governance, or the main topic. |
| Introduction | The introduction should explain the background, healthcare problem, quality concern, research gap, and purpose of the study. |
| Objectives | Objectives should clearly state what the study, audit, review, or quality improvement report aims to examine or improve. |
| Methodology | The methodology should describe research design, setting, data source, sample, tools, quality indicators, and analysis method. |
| Results and Discussion | Results should be presented clearly and discussed with relevance to healthcare practice, patient safety, and quality improvement. |
| Conclusion | The conclusion should summarize key findings, implications, limitations, and future recommendations. |
| References | All cited articles, reports, guidelines, standards, books, and official sources should be listed accurately. |
Before Submission
- Check that the manuscript fits the journal scope.
- Ensure the work is original and unpublished.
- Review grammar, formatting, tables, figures, and references.
- Confirm that patient identity and confidential information are protected.
- Include ethical approval, consent, or permission where applicable.
- Confirm that all authors have approved the final manuscript.
Author Responsibilities
- Submit honest, original, and ethical healthcare research.
- Provide accurate data, methods, results, and interpretation.
- Protect patient privacy and institutional confidentiality.
- Disclose conflicts of interest and funding where applicable.
- Respond to reviewer and editorial comments properly.
- Follow publication ethics and journal policies.
Originality and Plagiarism
Authors must submit only original work. The journal does not accept plagiarism, copied content, duplicate submission, self-plagiarism, fabricated data, falsified results, improper citation, or misleading presentation of healthcare research.
- All borrowed ideas, data, tables, figures, models, standards, and arguments must be cited.
- Authors should not copy content from published or unpublished sources without proper acknowledgment.
- The same manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal at the same time.
- Healthcare findings, audit outcomes, and quality indicators should be presented honestly.
- Manuscripts with serious plagiarism or ethical concerns may be rejected.
Ethical Declarations
Authors should provide required declarations where applicable. These may include conflict of interest, funding, ethical approval, consent, acknowledgments, data availability, and author contribution details.
- Conflict of interest declaration where applicable.
- Funding or institutional support details where applicable.
- Ethical approval or institutional permission for clinical, survey, audit, or healthcare data where required.
- Informed consent statement where patient-related information is involved.
- Acknowledgment of hospitals, institutions, departments, or professionals that supported the work.
- Clear author contribution details where required by the journal.
Review and Revision Process
Submitted manuscripts may undergo editorial screening and peer review. Authors may be asked to revise their manuscripts according to editorial or reviewer suggestions. Revised manuscripts should be submitted with clear improvements and, where required, a response to comments.
- Initial screening checks scope, completeness, originality, ethics, and basic quality.
- Suitable manuscripts may be reviewed by reviewers or subject experts.
- Authors may receive comments for minor or major revision.
- Revision should address comments carefully and professionally.
- The final decision depends on manuscript quality, ethics, relevance, and journal standards.
Publication Frequency and Issue Assignment
The Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal follows a bi-annual publication frequency and publishes two issues per year. Authors may submit manuscripts throughout the year. Accepted manuscripts are assigned to a suitable upcoming issue after completion of editorial screening, review, revision, formatting, and final approval.
Acceptance of a manuscript does not always mean immediate publication in the current issue. Issue assignment depends on editorial workflow, manuscript readiness, publication capacity, and the bi-annual publication schedule.
After Acceptance
| Final Formatting | Accepted manuscripts may be formatted according to journal publication requirements. |
| Author Verification | Authors may be asked to verify final details such as title, author names, affiliation, references, tables, figures, and article content. |
| Publication | The article is published in a suitable bi-annual issue after final editorial approval. |
| Indexing and Metadata | Article metadata may be used for indexing, archiving, citation, library listing, and academic discovery. |
Important Note
Authors submitting to the Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal should ensure that their manuscripts are original, ethical, well-structured, properly referenced, professionally relevant, and suitable for healthcare quality and patient safety scholarship. Submission confirms that authors agree to follow the journal’s editorial process, peer review policy, publication ethics, open access policy, and final editorial decision.