Academic publisher SAGE and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) have announced that the Journal of Correctional Health Care (JCHC) has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing more than 16 million journal article citations.
Published by SAGE, the Journal of Correctional Health Care is the official publication of NCCHC. The journal claims to be the only national, peer-reviewed scientific journal to address correctional health care topics.
Published quarterly under the direction of editor John R. Miles, MPA, JCHC features original research, case studies, best practices, literature reviews and more to keep correctional health care professionals up-to-date on trends and developments important to their field. It addresses areas such as clinical health care, health services and support, personnel and staffing, ethical issues, clinical services, medical records, continuous quality improvement, risk management and medical-legal issues.
