Two Journals, One Mission – Better Quality Healthcare
Explore the flagship International Journal for Quality in Health Care (IJQHC) and its open-access companion, IJQHC Communications (IJCOMS).
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From implementation science to health-services economics, ISQua’s journals keep healthcare professionals at the frontier of quality improvement. IJQHC publishes gold-standard studies and policy analyses, while IJQHC Communications fast-tracks practical research and early findings – all rigorously peer-reviewed, indexed, and ready to inspire change in your setting.
Inside IJQHC & IJCOMS Healthcare Journals
IJQHC – International Journal for Quality in Health Care
The International Journal for Quality in Health Care is ISQua’s flagship, peer-reviewed publication covering research, policy, and implementation in healthcare quality and safety.
What’s inside:
- Health-services research & programme evaluation
- Quality-improvement methods and outcomes
- Patient-safety science & clinical risk management
- Health-care policy, economics, and management
- System-level quality measurement & benchmarking
- Clinical research focused on care quality and safety
Editor-in-Chief: Sir Prof Aziz Sheikh, University of Oxford.
Members get full online access automatically.
IJQHC Communications – International Journal for Quality in Health Care Communications
The International Journal for Quality in Health Care Communications is fully open-access and implementation-focused – ideal for rapid dissemination of quality-improvement studies, protocols, and insights.
What’s inside:
- Implementation-science studies in real settings
- Technology assessment, usability, and digital safety
- Health-economics evaluations & cost-containment models
- Utilisation review and value-based care analytics
- Nursing, allied health, and social-care quality research
- Protocols, pilot projects, and cascaded submissions from IJQHC
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Richard Greenhill, USA.
Open access for every reader, everywhere.
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In Conversation: IJQHC Key Papers
Each year, the International Journal for Quality in Health Care (IJQHC) publishes research that advances how we design, lead and evaluate quality improvement of health systems. IJQHC Key Papers is a new interview series in which Professor Reece Hinchcliff (Deputy Editor, IJQHC) speaks with authors of selected key papers published in the journal throughout the year.
In each episode, we unpack the study itself, including its aims, methods, findings, and why it matters for quality, safety, and health system performance. We also go behind the paper: authors reflect on the challenges they navigated, the pivotal decisions that strengthened the work, and the research and career pathways that brought them to this point.
Designed for researchers, clinicians, managers, policymakers, and students, the series offers an accessible window into high-impact IJQHC scholarship and the people who produce it. It also highlights practical lessons you can apply to your own research, writing, and real-world impact.
Our first interview is with the authors of the winning 2025 Reizenstein Award, for their paper “Co-design of an intervention to improve patient participation in discharge medication communication.”
Call for Papers for Supplement on Uncertainty and Trust in Healthcare
Modern healthcare in the post-pandemic era is characterised by profound uncertainty. Financial and political volatility, rapid technological advancement, evolving regulatory landscapes, and increasing system complexity are reshaping care delivery. At the same time, healthcare systems face significant pressures on the workforce, learners and educators, clinicians, patients, and families—alongside a concerning erosion of trust in healthcare institutions.
This IJQCH supplement invites contributions that define, examine, and advance understanding of uncertainty and trust in healthcare. We seek papers that explore conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and practical strategies to support the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care in environments marked by complexity and unpredictability. Submissions may address how trust can be built, sustained, or restored, and how healthcare systems can adapt and improve under conditions of uncertainty.
Latest Issues
Each new issue distils the freshest thinking in quality improvement into peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, and case reports. Scan the highlights below to spot breakthrough methods, compare global benchmarks, and gather evidence you can cite in tomorrow’s safety briefing or funding pitch.
Data, digital health, and AI: building the foundations of modern quality management in healthcare
Quality improvement is the application of a systematic method for working through complex problems: it involves the people closest to the issue in discovering new solutions, testing those ideas in a structured way, and learning through the use of data...
In response to Baker et al.: Reconsidering the balance between access and continuity in primary care
Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education AgencyBangkit Indonesia Scholarship (BIB) -Ministry of Religious Affairs
Advance Articles
We offer a number of open access, advance journal articles for non-members to enjoy. Subjects include: health services research, health care evaluation, policy, health economics, quality improvement, management, and clinical research.
AbstractBackgroundAccreditation, certification, recognition, and standards-based quality frameworks are widely implemented across hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) to promote safety, standardization, and professional excellence. However, the nature and extent of the empirical evidence evaluating these frameworks specifically in critical care...
Latest Issues
Each new issue distils the freshest thinking in quality improvement into peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, and case reports. Scan the highlights below to spot breakthrough methods, compare global benchmarks, and gather evidence you can cite in tomorrow’s safety briefing or funding pitch.
Shanghai Rehabilitation Medicine Association2025JGYQ007
AbstractObjectivesThe patients on the general medicine units at our hospital in the United Arab Emirates are cared for by a group of multicultural clinicians. Diversity in training and practice backgrounds of these clinicians limits shared experiences and care paradigms vary....
AbstractBackgroundThe quality of nursing and midwifery education is central to preparing competent graduates capable of delivering safe and effective healthcare. However, limited empirical evidence exists on how quality training influences students’ academic performance, particularly within resource-constrained educational contexts. This study...
Advance Articles
We offer a number of open access, advance journal articles for non-members to enjoy. Subjects include: health services research, health care evaluation, policy, health economics, quality improvement, management, and clinical research.
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