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INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE OF THE JOURNAL
ARTICLE SUBMISSION PROCESS
REVIEW PROCESS
ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE STYLE
INTRODUCTION
With the objective of publishing a journal of significant value to its members, the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) looks for articles that help risk managers improve their professional performance. Articles of most benefit to the Journal’s readers are those that explain risk management techniques, spot trends, explain the significance and impact of court decisions and congressional activity on the risk management function, and relate risk management techniques to other health care areas.
PURPOSE OF THE JOURNAL
The purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum on health care risk management issues and explain the impact of those issues to other appropriate parties. Article topics could include, but are not limited to: professional liability claims management, loss prevention, risk management-related legislation and legal issues, risk management fundamentals, computers in risk management, statistical processing in risk management, safety, utilization management, and infection control.
Areas of particular interest are patient safety, risk financing/insurance, and enterprise risk management.
The point of view of the Journal is that health care risk management is a profession with an international scope. The slant is positive, based on the conviction that health care risk management can be learned, that health care risk managers already possess and can further learn skills to deal with today’s challenging health care environment, and that today’s health care liability and risk problems are not insurmountable.
ARTICLE SUBMISSION PROCESS
Step 1: Submit an outline (encouraged but not required).
You may submit an outline or an abstract (about one page) describing the subject and purpose of your article. Your outline will be reviewed and suggestions made to help you focus on the needs and interests of Journal readers.
Step 2: Submit the paper.
Please observe the following guidelines in submitting your completed article:
* Manuscript should be no more than 10 pages in length, double-spaced.
* Manuscript must be typed.
* Number the pages.
* Include a brief biographical sketch - your title, affiliation, location, and list of articles you have published.
The following guidelines will help you organize your paper:
Abstract/Introduction:
Write about 50 words summarizing your manuscript. Although it will appear first, it probably will be the last thing you write before submitting the manuscript for review.
Body:
This is the heart of your paper, which should guide the reader through the major points of your presentation. Please keep in mind that your paper should include enough information so that the reader is in a position to evaluate issues, or determine the potential for implementing your ideas or techniques at his or her health care organization. Provide as much data as possible. Graphs, charts and bulleted lists clarify presentation of information. If applicable, please include cost-related information.
Conclusion:
This section should wrap up the paper. You may want to include helpful hints on implementation or on pitfalls to avoid in carrying out suggested procedures.
REVIEW PROCESS
All manuscripts undergo a review process, and there is no guarantee that a submission will be published. During the review process, all authors are obliged to refrain from submitting the article to other publication or distributing it in any other written format to others. This restriction does not prevent authors from having their articles reviewed by others prior to submitting their manuscripts to the Journal. This single-publication restriction terminates upon notification that the article has been rejected for publication in the Journal.
ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
To be accepted, articles must meet at least the following criteria:
* They are addressed specifically to our audience of health care risk managers.
* They are appropriate to the Journal's subject matter and consistent with its point of view.
* They cover their subject topic substantively.
* They present new information or add a new slant to existing literature.
* The information they contain is technically accurate.
* They conform to the manuscript format set forth in these author guidelines.
All manuscripts accepted for publication in the Journal are subject to editing. Once accepted for publication, all articles become the property of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and may not be reprinted or published elsewhere without the written permission of the author and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
One of your most important responsibilities as an author is to observe deadlines. Because we must coordinate the articles of numerous authors and meet a strict printing schedule, it is essential that you commit to and meet any deadlines assigned to you.
Other responsibilities you have as a Journal author are the following:
* Original articles must be submitted exclusively to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.
* Your article may not contain advertising.
* You must supply the source of any material you quote.
CONCLUSION
The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management cannot exist without authors. With your help, it will increasingly become a significant contribution to the literature in the field of health care risk management. We look forward to working with you.
Please submit all materials to:
ASHRM
American Hospital Association
One North Franklin
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Joe Pixler
(312) 422-3987 - telephone
(312) 422-4580 - fax
REFERENCE STYLE
BOOKS
The following information must be included for all books in lists of references and in bibliographies:
* Name of author or editor (last name first, then first and middle initials, then Jr., Sr., III, etc., if applicable).
* Title of book underlined and with all words capitalized except for prepositions, articles and conjunctions.
* City and state for place of publication.
* Name of publisher
* Date of publication (year only).
* Page number (only if appropriate).
Use one of the following formats as applicable:
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Toward a Comprehensive Health Policy for the 1990s: A White Paper. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.
Sigerist, H.E. A History of Medicine. Vol. 2, Early Greek, Hindu and Persian Medicine. New York City: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Michigan Department of Social Services. Health Care and Income: The Distributional Impacts of Medicaid and Medicare Nationally and in the State of Michigan (Research Paper No. 5). Lansing, MI: MDSS, 1994.
Freud, S. Edited by Gaynor, F., and Fodor, N. Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
PERIODICALS
The following information must be included for articles from periodicals, such as magazines and journals, which are referred to in reference list of bibliographies:
* Author’s name (last name first, then first and middle initials, then Jr., Sr., II, etc.).
* Title of article (first word and proper nouns capitalized).
* Name of journal or magazine (underlined).
* Volume number.
* Issue number (in parentheses).
* Inclusive page numbers (that is, numbers of first and last pages of article).
* Month, day and year of publication.
Use one of the following formats:
Pick, O.M. A cooperative central laundry. Part 1, From planning to reality. Hospitals. 55(4):84-90, Feb. 16, 1996.
Douglas, C.W. Social-psychological view of health behavior for health services research. Health Services Research. 6(1):153-155, Spring, 1994.
Rowen, M., and Dorsey, T.J. Radiologic special procedures privileges. Journal of the American Medical Association. 220(3):895, May 8, 1995.
UNPUBLISHED MATTER
Aker, G.A. A national survey of medical and health facilities in prisons. Master’s thesis, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1996.
Corley, T. An evaluation and review of some of the more significant problems of the Frankford Hospital clinics. Unpublished paper, Temple University, Philadelphia, no date.
Dalton, P. The problem-oriented record. Luncheon address, American Medical Record Association annual meeting, Denver, Oct. 17, 1995.
WEB SITES
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. 2000. State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) aggregate enrollment statistics for the 50 states and the District of Columbia for federal fiscal year 2000 (accessed on Aug. 8, 2003). Available at: www.cms.hhs.gov/schip/fy2000.pdf
