Journal for Healthcare Quality

Last updated ISSN 1062-2551

Journal for Healthcare Quality is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.

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What it publishes

Recent work in Journal for Healthcare Quality concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:

Healthcare Quality and Management
Healthcare Policy and Management
Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Patient Safety and Medication Errors
Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Pharmacy and Medical Practices
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues

Key facts

Publisher	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN	1062-2551, 1945-1474
Subject area	Health Professions
Access	Subscription
Article processing charge	Not published
Indexed in	Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus
Articles published	3,366
Publishing since	1980
Journal website	journals.lww.com/jhqonline/Pages/default.aspx

Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.

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