Quality in Health Care

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To: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Jim O'Donnell)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:53:19 -0400 (EDT)

Quality in Health Care

Note new title: Quality and Safety in Health Care
	
http://qshc.bmj.com/
(Link active 17 April 2007)

The BMJ Publishing Group is pleased to announce that the full text of
Quality in Health Care is now available online.

Quality in Health Care was founded in 1992 to meet the growing need for a
journal to reflect and report initiatives to improve quality of health
care.  It is an interdisciplinary journal with an international readership
and contributions from all healthcare professions.  Published quarterly,
Quality in Health Care is fully refereed and indexed in ISI current
contents, EMBASE, MEDLINE and CINAHL.  The journal includes: original
papers;  editorials; quality improvement reports; commentated case
studies; and reviews.

The journal covers:
·	the development and integration of quality
·	improvement into routine practice in all sectors of 
	healthcare services 
·	the influence of management 
	and organizational development on the quality of 
	clinical care 
·	improvement in the quality and management of 
	clinical care 
·	the views of consumers and their role as promoters 
	of improved quality and health care 
·	research relevant to healthcare quality

Quality in Health Care online contains the full content of each issue of
the journal, including all figures and tables, beginning with the March
2000 issue (Volume 9, Number 1).  The full text is searchable by keyword,
and the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the online
full text of many other frequently-cited journals.  PDF files are
available beginning in March 1998 (Volume 7, Number 1), and abstracts are
available beginning with the March 1992 issue (Volume 1, Number 1).

Each issue will be placed online approximately on the date it is mailed to
subscribers; therefore the online site will be available prior to receipt
of your paper copy.  The June 2000 issue (Volume 9, Number 2) is the
latest issue online, and the next issue is scheduled to be online on
September 1. Online readers may want to sign up for the Customised @lerts
service (eTOCs), which will deliver each new issue's table of contents via
email.  The web site also provides access to information about the journal
(such as Instructions to Contributors and subscription information), as
well as access to the BMJ Publishing Group's web site.

There is currently a free trial period for access to Quality in Health
Care, which will be available until September 3, 2000.  Subsequent to the
free trial, access to the full-text of articles will be available by
institutional license, which comes with all institutional subscriptions,
or individual subscription available to print subscribers.  All other
access (e.g., to Abstracts, eTOCs, searching, Instructions to Authors)
will remain freely available.

We very much encourage you to sign the guestbook on your first visit to
the site.  This will take only a minute or two, and it will provide us
with helpful information about who the online readers are and how they are
connecting to the site.  In addition, we would appreciate comments,
critiques, questions, or suggestions from you; these can be sent via the
Feedback link found on all pages of the site.  Feedback from readers will
help us decide what new features would be most valuable for the site and
how well it is working for its readers.

The site is being produced in conjunction with Stanford University's
HighWire Press, which also works with other medical and research journals,
including these frequently-cited journals: BMJ, Circulation, Journal of
Clinical Oncology, and Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  You may
find a list of online medical and research journals and their URLs at:

	http://highwire.stanford.edu     or
	http://intl.highwire.org

Thirteen other journals published by the BMJ Publishing 
Group are now online; you can find this list at this URL:

	http://www.bmjjournals.com/

(Please forward this information to your colleagues who may 
be interested in Quality in Health Care.)

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Alex Williamson,
	BMJ Specialty Journals
John Sack, Director,
	HighWire Press, Stanford University