Patient Safety in Surgery
Last updated ISSN 1754-9493
Patient Safety in Surgery is published by BioMed Central in health professions. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Patient Safety in Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Bone fractures and treatments
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Hemostasis and retained surgical items
- Surgical Simulation and Training
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1754-9493 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 741 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/ |
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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