Open Access & Peer-Reviewed
Submit ManuscriptThe Journal of Patient Care and Services invites original, practice focused, and policy relevant manuscripts that strengthen care quality, care coordination, patient experience, and health service performance. Our scope spans patient safety, healthcare innovation, digital health and telehealth delivery, patient reported outcome and experience measures, access and equity, cost effectiveness and value based care, workforce planning and service operations, and implementation science. We welcome multidisciplinary contributions from clinicians, nurse researchers, care administrators, quality officers, public health specialists, health economists, and implementation scientists. If your work improves real world service delivery, strengthens safety outcomes, advances care transitions, or clarifies healthcare decision pathways, this is the right forum to present and scale your evidence.
Submissions are evaluated for methodological rigor, practical relevance, ethical clarity, and measurable contribution to patient care transformation across clinical and service delivery contexts.
Discharge planning effectiveness, referral pathway optimization, continuity of care models, integrated care networks, and cross setting handover studies that reduce fragmentation and improve patient outcomes during care transitions.
Safety incident reduction, quality indicators, medication pathway reliability, clinical audit methodologies, and systems interventions that strengthen reliability and reduce preventable harm in healthcare service settings.
Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), patient reported experience measures (PREMs), satisfaction assessment frameworks, shared decision making, and communication quality studies that center the patient voice in care evaluation.
Telehealth workflow performance, remote patient monitoring, digital triage systems, mobile health interventions, electronic health record optimization, and patient engagement technologies with validated clinical or service outcomes.
Health equity interventions, social determinants of health, disparities reduction strategies, community based care delivery, rural and underserved population access, and studies addressing structural barriers to equitable healthcare services.
Cost effectiveness analysis, value based care models, resource allocation optimization, workforce planning and staffing models, capacity management, service line economics, and operational efficiency studies grounded in real world data.
Adoption and scale up frameworks, knowledge translation, fidelity assessment, de-implementation of low value practices, and studies examining how evidence based interventions are embedded sustainably into routine patient care delivery.
Team based practice improvements, nursing leadership outcomes, cross discipline communication frameworks, scope of practice evolution, healthcare administration, and bedside process enhancement research in patient care environments.
JPCS combines editorial rigor with market level visibility planning. Every accepted article is supported by strong metadata delivery, stable open access hosting, and structured dissemination pathways that improve discovery by clinicians, educators, managers, and researchers. Our editorial process emphasizes clear reviewer guidance and practical revision support so that your final publication reflects both scientific quality and applied value.
The journal covers the full patient care continuum from care coordination and safety systems through patient experience measurement, digital service delivery, workforce operations, cost and value analysis, access equity, and implementation science. Authors benefit from predictable communication cycles, transparent APC policy, and a submission experience designed for busy clinical and administrative teams.
Our workflow is structured to keep momentum high while protecting academic and clinical quality standards.
Editorial checks confirm fit, reporting completeness, and ethical readiness before full peer review assignment.
Reviewers assess design quality, validity of conclusions, and practical relevance for patient care and service settings.
Authors receive structured comments that prioritize clarity, methodological strength, and implementation relevance.
Accepted papers move to production with copyediting, metadata preparation, and immediate open access dissemination.
These questions are the most frequent during active calls for papers in care quality and service research tracks.
Yes. Single site studies are welcome when methodology is clear, outcome logic is transparent, and limitations are discussed responsibly for transferability.
Yes. Interdisciplinary submissions are strongly encouraged because patient care outcomes often depend on cross functional decisions, care coordination, and service operations alignment.
Yes. Studies examining value based care, resource allocation, service line economics, and cost outcome relationships in patient care delivery are core to the journal scope.
Yes. Well designed studies with neutral findings are valuable for decision making and can prevent inefficient or unsafe implementation choices in care service environments.
Editors and reviewers consistently prioritize manuscripts that are methodologically transparent and operationally useful for real care environments.
Define primary and secondary outcomes in advance and tie them to care quality, safety, patient experience, cost, or service access decisions.
Explain how findings can be adopted by healthcare teams, what resources and workforce conditions are needed, and what barriers are likely during scale up.
Report setting, staffing constraints, baseline process maturity, equity considerations, and patient profile details to support interpretation and transferability.
Discuss uncertainty, generalizability boundaries, and cost or equity implications clearly so conclusions remain credible and decision ready.
Before upload, confirm your manuscript states one explicit care problem, one measurable objective, and one practical implication for patient care delivery or health service operations. This three point framing improves reviewer alignment and reduces requests for structural rewriting after first decision. Include this positioning in your abstract and cover letter.
Choose your preferred submission method and send your manuscript to a journal focused on measurable patient care impact, service delivery improvement, implementation relevance, and global healthcare visibility.
