Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.

Scope

This journal covers all topics related to all aspects of medicine and health care research. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to:

Chronic care

• Health assessment
• Laboratory and diagnostic procedures
• Medication management
• Disease prevention
• Early diagnosis
• Treatment and comprehensive strategies
• Morbidity and mortality
• Long term outcomes
• Scoring systems and outcome prediction
• Socio-economic burden of chronic care

Critical care*

• Emergency, perioperative and intensive care
• Pediatric/neonates care
• Medical imaging, monitoring, support

Advanced inpatients care

• Advanced medical investigation and treatment
• Experimental medicine
• Uncommon diagnostic or surgical procedures

Health informatics (electronic and online based clinical studies and medical research)

Health care materials

Mental health

Nursing

* Treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness, injury or other health condition.

• Open Access - free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High visibility: Indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) - Web of Science, from Vol. 5. Citations available in PubMed, full-text archived in PubMed Central.
• Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 19.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2019).
• Recognition of reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.