The
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, a peer-reviewed journal, serves as a forum for practical approaches to improving quality and safety in health care. Articles provide detailed, in-depth case studies that enable readers to adopt or adapt methods, programs, and strategies to their own settings. The
Journal offers case studies and success stories—with practical advice and suggestions straight from the practitioners and experts in quality and safety. The
Journal provides an ongoing resource to the ways that organizations and clinicians, administrators, physicians, nurses, and other staff are assessing and improving quality and safety.
In addition to feature articles—full-length descriptions of quality and safety programs, methods, or strategies, including the rationale, planning, implementation, evaluation, and lessons learned, the
Journal also offers shorter articles in departments such as Interviews, Field Notes, Tool Tutorials, and Case Studies in Brief.
For the full range of topics covered in the
Journal, please see the
Guidelines for Authors.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (ISSN 1553-7250) is published monthly (12 issues per year, 1 volume per year) by Joint Commission Resources, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181. The 2008 individual subscription rates for
United States are $299 for both print and online, $249 for online only; for
Mexico/Canada are $344 for both print and online, $249 for online only; and for
all other countries are $389 for both print and online, $249 for online only. A
online site license is also available.
Executive Editor: Steve Berman
Senior Project Manager: Cheryl Firestone
Statistical Consultant: Stephen Schmaltz, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Publications: Catherine Chopp Hinckley, Ph.D. Vice President, Learning: Charles Macfarlane, F.A.C.H.E.