Description:
The International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is a refereed, applied research journal designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of clinical problem solving in healthcare and the overall management of patient-centered healthcare. Patient-centered healthcare... Show More
The International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is a refereed, applied research journal designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of clinical problem solving in healthcare and the overall management of patient-centered healthcare. Patient-centered healthcare aims at improved healthcare management through clinical problem solving utilizing concerted experiential learning in conversations between multiple users and stakeholders, primarily patients, health professionals, and other actors in a care giving collaborative network across a Web interface. The journal serves as a valuable academic platform for all these stakeholders to document and share their learning.
Mission & Scope:
The primary objective of the International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is to provide a global forum for researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice of patient-centered healthcare learning in healthcare and other disciplines. The emphasis here is on learning through clinical problem solving. The secondary objective of this journal is to develop a... Show More
The primary objective of the International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is to provide a global forum for researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice of patient-centered healthcare learning in healthcare and other disciplines. The emphasis here is on learning through clinical problem solving. The secondary objective of this journal is to develop a comprehensive framework of patient-centered healthcare by taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding its implications on the present healthcare scenario.
Coverage:
- Asynchronous computer mediated communication in healthcare to generate persistent clinical encounters
- Bridging the gap between what we know and what is knowable in clinical practice
- Case studies in clinical problem solving
- Clinical problem-solving perspectives from multiple stakeholders
- Degrees and forms of participation in user-driven healthcare
- Descriptive statistics with a purpose—how statistics shape society's view of itself.
- Dynamics of social construction and performance of illness through user-driven healthcare practices
- Electronic health records and online portfolio-based learning in healthcare
- Evolving pathologies and dealings with in the interface between industry, commercial branding and users
- Human computer interaction and semantic web technologies in user-driven health
- Illness journey narratives/healthcare autoethnographies around normal and altered physiologic states
- Interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence
- Medical cognition and decision-making theory
- Online user-driven statistical data collection and interpretations
- Participatory action research as a bottom up strategy to problem solving and achieving change in healthcare
- Patient and health professional user-driven ‘narrative electronic health records’
- Patient and health professional users’ coping strategies (created in light of user-driven content) for life changing diseases
- Patient and health professional users’ creativity in clinical problem solving in healthcare
- Patient users dealing with stigmatization attached to certain diseases and health behavior
- Patient users’ health strategies in a growing interface between corporate (e.g., pharmaceutical) interests, public health promotion and themselves
- Patient/patient’s-relative/volunteer user strategies in shared decision making with physicians and other healthcare users
- Searching for evidence and soul searching in user-driven healthcare
- Social, ethical and political context of health and illness and analysis of pertinent health policy
IGI Global holds its journals to the highest ethical practices.
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the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor(s)-in-Chief at his/her/their full discretion has/have decided to accept the manuscript based
on the results of the double-blind peer review process.
What Does IGI Global's Open Access APC Cover?
In the traditional subscription-based model, the cost to the publisher to produce each article is covered by the revenue generated by journal subscriptions.
Under OA, all the articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license; therefore, the authors or funding body will pay a one-time
article processing charge (APC) to offset the costs of all of the activities associated with the publication of the article manuscript, including:
- Digital tools used to support the manuscript management and review process
- Typesetting, formatting and layout
- Online hosting
- Submission of the journal's content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes
- Third-party software (e.g. plagiarism checks)
- Editorial support which includes manuscript tracking, communications, submission guideline checks, and communications with authors and reviewers
- All promotional support and activities which include metadata distribution, press releases, promotional communications, web content, ads, fliers, brochures, postcards, etc. for the journal and its published contents
- The fact that all published articles will be freely accessible and able to be posted and disseminated widely by
the authors - Professional line-by-line English language copy editing and proofreading*
*This service is only performed on article manuscripts with fully paid (not discounted or waived) APC fees.
APC Subsidizing and Funding
To assist researchers in covering the costs of the APC in OA publishing, there are various sources of OA funding.
Additionally, unlike many other publishers, IGI Global offers flexible subsidies, 100% Open Access APC funding, discounts, and more.
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IGI Global recognizes that many researchers may not know where to begin when searching for OA funding opportunities. IGI Global recently launched an
Open Access Funding Resources page for researchers to browse.
This page provides a comprehensive list of OA funding sources available for researchers to secure funds for their various OA publications.
This journal is currently actively seeking new submissions. Interested authors should ensure that their article manuscript adheres to the journal's
submission guidelines
and
before you write page,
which include originality of the manuscript, APA formatting information and examples, manuscript requirements, and more. To submit an article for consideration,
please begin the submission process below.
All inquiries regarding IJPCH should be directed to the attention of:
Submission-Related InquiriesYu-Dong Zhang
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH)
Email:
yudongzhang@ieee.orgAuthor Services Inquiries
For inquiries involving pre-submission concerns, please contact the Journal Development Division:
journaleditor@igi-global.comOpen Access Inquiries
For inquiries involving publishing costs, APCs, etc., please contact the Open Access Division:
openaccessadmin@igi-global.comProduction-Related Inquiries
For inquiries involving accepted manuscripts currently in production or post-production, please contact the Journal Production Division:
journalproofing@igi-global.comRights and Permissions Inquiries
For inquiries involving permissions, rights, and reuse, please contact the Intellectual Property & Contracts Division:
contracts@igi-global.comPublication-Related Inquiries
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The International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is owned and published by IGI Global.
International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) is editorially independent, with full authority of the journal's content falling to the Editor-in-Chief and the journal's
Editorial Board.
The In-House Editorial Office manages the publishing operations of the journal.
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Samantha Miduri
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