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 The manuscript should be original, unpublished, properly referenced, ethically prepared, and relevant to healthcare quality, patient safety, healthcare management, or allied health practice.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
Original studies presenting healthcare quality problems, methodology, analysis, results, discussion, and conclusions.
Scholarly reviews on healthcare quality, patient safety, clinical governance, public health, and healthcare management.
Practical studies based on hospitals, clinics, healthcare institutions, audit practices, or quality improvement projects.
Reports describing structured healthcare improvement initiatives, implementation steps, outcomes, and professional learning.
Articles discussing healthcare policy, accreditation, regulation, institutional standards, and service delivery improvement.
Practice-based manuscripts related to healthcare leadership, patient-centred care, safety culture, and quality systems.
Subject Areas for Submission
The journal accepts manuscripts from a wide range of fields:
- 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 quality systems
- Public health quality, community health, and health system strengthening
- Nursing quality, allied health practice, and multidisciplinary care
- Infection prevention, medication safety, and clinical risk reduction
- Patient experience, satisfaction, communication, and patient-centred care
- Digital health, healthcare analytics, electronic records, and quality tools
- Healthcare ethics, policy, regulation, and health service delivery
- Medical education, professional training, and workforce quality
Manuscript Structure
| Section | Requirement |
|---|---|
| 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 & 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. |
Pre-Submission Checklist
- 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.
- Submit only original work without copying or duplicate submission.
- Properly cite all borrowed ideas, data, tables, models, and standards.
- Present healthcare findings, audit outcomes, and indicators honestly.
- Do not submit the manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously.
- Manuscripts with serious plagiarism or ethical concerns will be rejected.
Ethical Declarations
Authors should provide required declarations where applicable. These may include:
- 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.
Initial Screening
Checks scope, completeness, originality, ethics, and basic quality.
Peer Review
Suitable manuscripts are evaluated by subject experts.
Revision Stage
Authors receive comments for minor or major revisions.
Resubmission
Revisions should address comments carefully and professionally.
Final Decision
Final decision depends on quality, ethics, relevance, and standards.
After Acceptance & Publication Cycle
The Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal follows a bi-annual publication frequency and publishes two issues per year. Accepted manuscripts are assigned to a suitable upcoming issue after completion of editorial screening, review, revision, formatting, and final approval.
Accepted manuscripts are formatted according to publication requirements. Authors verify final details such as title, author names, affiliations, references, tables, and figures.
The article is published in a suitable bi-annual issue after final editorial approval. Article metadata is utilized for indexing, archiving, citation, and academic discovery.
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.