Air Quality Journals

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Asalways, we welcome articles across a broad array of topics related to quality improvement including but not limited to QI methodologies and QI tool schools, QI related M & M, collaborative and network QI research, value and payment reform, population health, human factors helping to improve performance, guidelines and pathways, QI organizational structure, and QI education for staff and trainees. Interested authors should refer to the Instructions for Authors for specific guidance. We invite authors to submit online at www.editorialmanager.com/pqs.

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, published monthly by Elsevier, is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to providing health professionals with the information they need to promote the quality and safety of health care. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety invites original manuscripts on the development, adaptation, and/or implementation of innovative thinking, strategies, and practices for improving quality and safety in health care. Original research reporting the development and implementation of programs or projects, studies on the effectiveness of improvement interventions, reports of new innovations or new applications of methodologies, and commentaries on issues and practices, among other article types, are all considered.

Published monthly, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to providing health professionals with the information they need to promote the quality and safety of health care. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety invites original manuscripts on the development, adaptation, and/or implementation of innovative thinking, strategies, and practices for improving quality and safety in health care. Original research reporting the development and implementation of programs or projects, studies on the effectiveness of improvement interventions, reports of new innovations or new applications of methodologies, and commentaries on issues and practices, among other article types, are all considered.

Editorial Policy

No statement in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety should be construed as an official position of The Joint Commission or Joint Commission Resources unless otherwise stated. In particular, there has been no official review with regard to matters of standards compliance.

How does the Journal differ from the many other periodicals on quality of care and quality improvement?

The Journal was the first publication of its kind to offer the kind of detailed reports on quality improvement methods that professionals need if they are to be able to really learn how to apply those methods to their own settings. It publishes monthly, which allows for consistent coverage of quality and safety, and is peer reviewed, which means that papers are thoroughly screened by members of the Editorial Advisory Board and/or other experts to fulfill readers' needs for authoritative, credible, and useful information. And it covers a wide range of topics, unlike many newsletters that focus only on single topics, such as disease management or practice guidelines.

Who writes articles for the Journal?

The Journal receives submissions, occasionally by invitation, from a quality and safety community as diverse as its readership. Articles come from a wide variety of practitioners, quality and safety specialists, administrators, consultants, and researchers, usually because of their interest in describing their own experiences with quality and safety initiatives and methods and in reporting their own perspectives. Articles are welcome from not only the United States but the entire world.

How long does it take for a paper to be accepted and published?

This varies with the topic and quality of the paper and the number of papers in the pipeline, but for most papers it takes 4-8 months to be accepted and another 6-9 months to be published. Short papers considered for a department will receive expedited treatment.

Does the Journal represent the official views of the Joint Commission or Joint Commission Resources?

Unlike Joint Commission Perspectives, "the official newsletter of The Joint Commission," the Journal is a forum for the entire quality and safety community. Articles may on occasion express views that diverge from Joint Commission policies and standards. Yet the Journal does address the mission of JCR and the Joint Commission.

Is there discount pricing for health care systems with multiple facilities?

For pricing considerations for health systems with multiple sites and multi-year subscriptions, please contact Helen Fry at hf...@jcrinc.com or 630.792.5414.

*The use of Joint Commission Resources consultative technical or advisory services is not necessary to obtain a Joint Commission Accreditation award, nor does it influence the granting of such awards.

TOP Factor complements other efforts to improve research culture and practice. The Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) states the research should be evaluated on its own merits, not the journal in which it is published. TOP Factor helps realize the DORA vision. Authors can use TOP Factor to identify journals that have policies aligned with their values and credit their effort to be more rigorous and transparent. Funders can use TOP Factor to assess which journals are most likely to support their policy mandates for grantees. And, publishers can use TOP Factor to identify journals with progressive policies for inspiration, and monitor trends in policies by discipline.

So far, over 250 journal policies have been evaluated and are presented on the TOP Factor website. The initial journals are heavily represented by psychology, economics, education, and general science outlets. The initial emphasis is on fields and journals that have been particularly progressive in adopting policies for transparency and rigor.

The initial release of TOP Factor focuses on policies relating to transparency of research process and outputs. As TOP Factor improves over time, it could incorporate more features for evaluating the quality of journal processes such as the transparency of its journal operations, operating costs, and editorial and peer review services. Long-term, TOP Factor should increase visibility and adoption of best practices for how journals can facilitate and accelerate research progress.

About the Center for Open Science

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit technology and culture change organization founded in 2013 with a mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. COS pursues this mission by building communities around open science practices, supporting metascience research, and developing and maintaining free, open source software tools. The OSF is a web application that provides a solution for the challenges facing researchers who want to pursue open science practices, including: a streamlined ability to manage their work; collaborate with others; discover and be discovered; preregister their studies; and make their code, materials, and data openly accessible. Learn more at cos.io and osf.io.

Alice is a Patient Relations Manager at Stanford Health Care. Within her role, she provides a channel for problem resolution to promote the highest quality of care and service excellence. Alice has also worked as an Unrelated Donor Search Coordinator with the Blood & Marrow Transplant at Stanford Health Care to coordinate allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants through collaborative planning and partnership with the National Marrow Donor Program and SHC clinicians. Prior to her work with SHC, she was the Community Service Foundation Director at San Mateo County Medical Association where she partnered with local stakeholders and clinicians to expand county-wide community health programs to diverse populations. She has also delivered invaluable community health services through her work with the American Heart Association.

Alice earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Biology at Saint Bonaventure University in Olean, NY and her Master of Public Health from SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY. Alice is a member of The Beryl Institute and Adult Congenital Heart Association professional associations, Donor Network West partner advocating for organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation, and remains an active volunteer with SHC. Alice continues to promote patient-and-family-centered care in both hospital and community settings to support precision health and improve the healthcare experience for patients, families, and clinicians.

Micah Duchesne joined Stanford Medicine in 2020 as a Principal Consultant project managing the deployment and operations of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) for COVID-19. He is now the Administrative Director of Performance Improvement at Stanford Health Care where he leads annual operations planning, improvement consulting, and capability development. Micah is also a Fellow at the Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement.

Before joining Stanford, Micah was an independent consultant for his company Silicon Valley Strategy Group, which partnered with Novartis and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to commercialize cellular therapies. He led a team of clinicians from Europe, Japan, and Australia in designing a global logistics model and quality management system for Kymriah, the world's first approved CAR-T therapy, and helped create an international advisory board aimed at improving global capacity.

Prior to independent consulting, Micah was the Director of Performance Improvement at Kaiser's Santa Clara Medical Center, and he previously held improvement roles of increasing complexity within other health systems. Micah has both a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Master of Health Services Administration from Mississippi College. He also holds certifications as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Project Management Professional.

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