STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, a new multispecialty, peer-review journal that provides high-quality information and research findings on operational and system-based approaches to ensure safe, coordinated, and high-value patient care immediately preceding, during, and soon after medical procedures. The first issue of this quarterly journal is scheduled for publication in September 2015.
Dr. David H. Berger, Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Houston, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the new journal. His many academic and professional accomplishments include having served as president of both the Association for Academic Surgery and the Association of VA Surgeons.
Guided by an eminent editorial board, Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management supports open access and publishes traditional research articles, subject reviews, performance improvement projects, concept papers, letters, expert opinion, and editorials. Topics covered include among others: quality improvement process initiatives, patient safety, staffing and human factors, process flow modeling, information management, efficient design, cost improvement, use of novel technologies, and management.
This journal's audience includes all groups who participate in the planning, execution, and monitoring of periprocedural process, including medical specialists (surgeons, anesthesiologists, hospitalists, and interventional radiologists), nurses, administrators, pharmacists, systems and process engineers, health care architects, and other health care providers.
