Acute Care calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers on the Topic of the Governance of Emergency Medicine for a Special Issue of the Clinical Governance: An International Journal

Clinical Governance: An International Journal is seeking contributions for a special issue on the theme of the governance of emergency medicine, to be published towards the end of 2012 or early in 2013.

The theme is inspired by a recent conference, hosted by the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.

Nick Harrop will be the editor of this special issue. Nick has over 30 years experience of emergency medicine.

We are seeking articles on topics such as:

• Patients’ perspectives on the quality of emergency healthcare and emergency medicine,
• International Standards for emergency healthcare and emergency medicine,
• Quality perspectives from the developing world,
• Critical perspectives on best practice development.

All submissions will be subject to CGIJ's usual reviewing policy. If you would like to join our panel of reviewers please contact agillies@emeraldinsight.com.

The editors would welcome enquiries from potential authors in advance of submission on suitability and scope.

Key Dates
31 Jan 2011 Call announced
30 June 2012 Latest date at which submissions will be considered for the special issue.
31 August 2012 Latest date by which papers accepted in principle after review will be returned to the authors for revisions for inclusion in the special issue
31 October 2012 Latest date by which papers accepted for inclusion in the special issue must be returned by authors with revisions completed
Late 2012/early 2013 Special Issue published

The Editors will be happy to publish papers that meet the reviewing criteria but miss the deadline at a later date in a standard issue.

Call for Papers: Pediatric Hospital Medicine

The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine will devote our May 2013 issue to pediatric hospital medicine. We are interested in a broad range of research related to hospital care, including clinical and comparative effectiveness research on the inpatient management of pediatric disease. We invite all hospital-based pediatricians, including hospitalists, emergency medicine physicians, neonatologists, and intensivists to submit manuscripts, preferentially by September 15, 2012.

Call for Authors: Journal of Trauma Nursing

Official journal of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN)

Authors needed: All those concerned with the practice of trauma nursing in the areas of clinical practice, research, education, health policy, and administration are invited to submit manuscripts on the following topics:

International Trauma Issues
Collaboration Between Trauma Practitioners and Other Disciplines
Acute Care Surgery and Trauma
Magnet Designation and Trauma
Perioperative Trauma Care
Ethical Issues in Trauma
Clinical Care Across the Trauma Continuum
Trauma Research
Trauma Rehab

Please visit the JTN Editorial Manager site at http://JTN.edmgr.com for more information or to submit a manuscript, or contact the editor with questions at JTNeditor@katschroeter.com

Call for Papers: ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition

ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition is a bimonthly journal for health care professionals involved in the nutritional care of children from birth through adolescence. ICAN provides practical information derived from research and practice.

ICAN is a must-read for:

• Dietitians and nutritionists in children’s and general hospitals, outpatient facilities, schools, and consulting practices
• Nurses, including pediatric nurse practitioners, family nurse practitioners, children’s hospital staff, home practice nurses, pediatric acute and critical care nurses, and school nurses
• Physicians, including pediatricians; pediatric specialists in gastroenterology, endocrinology, pulmonology, nephrology, and cardiology; and general and primary care practitioners
• Allied Health Professionals, including physician assistants; exercise physiologists; occupational therapists; physical therapists; speech and language specialists; health psychologists;
and family therapists, social workers, and psychologists
• Pharmacists

The editor is now accepting manuscripts on the following topics:

• Early Lifespan Nutrition • Chronic Disease Management
• Nutrition Support/Special Diets • Acute Disease Management
• Gastrointestinal Disorders • Overweight & Comorbidities
• Growth & Development

Manuscript submissions can be sent to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ican

For manuscript inquiries, please contact the editor at lheller@chla.usc.edu or call (323) 361-2179

Editor: Linda Heller, MS, RD, CSP, CLE,
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Call for Manuscripts: Critical Care Insider

Have you ever thought about being published in a major journal? Now's your chance! Critical Care Insider is currently accepting articles.

To submit an article to the journal, follow the new online submission process: http://lwwesubmissions.edmgr.com.

Call for Papers: American Journal of Clinical Medicine

The American Journal of Clinical Medicine (AJCM) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc. (AAPS), an organization dedicated to promoting the highest intellectual, moral, and ethical standards of its members. Its diversity incorporates physicians that represent a broad spectrum of specialties including anesthesiology, dermatology, diagnostic radiology, disaster medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine/OB, family practice, geriatric medicine, hospital medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology, general surgery, and urgent care medicine.

To further the goals of AAPS, which include providing education for its members and promoting the study, research, and improvement of its various specialties, the AJCM invites submissions of high-quality review articles, clinical reports, case reports, or original research on any topic which has potential to impact the daily practice of medicine.

Publication in the AJCM is one of the criteria to qualify for the prestigious Degree of Fellow within the Academies of Medicine of the AAPS.

Isuue Deadlines:

Summer 2012 • Vol. 9, No. 3 May 1, 2012
Fall 2012 • Vol. 9, No. 4 August 1, 2012

Contact AAPS
5550 West Executive Dr., Suite 400
Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 433-2277
Fax (813) 830-6599

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research: Internet of Things: Towards a Mobile and Ubiquitous Healthcare and Prevention

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the leading international peer-reviewed and open access journal dealing with issues related to health, health care and medicine in the Internet age.

JMIR is the most cited journal on medical informatics, according to the Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) index, with an Impact Factor of 4.7.

The evolution of the Internet towards the Future Internet with IPv6, Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks (e.g. 6LoWPAN, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi), mobile computing (e.g. smart phones, tablets), as well as the capabilities for global and uniqueness identification of objects (e.g. RFID, NFC), are making it feasible to identify, sense, locate, and connect people, machines, devices and everyday equipment.

These new capabilities to link Internet with everyday devices, forms of identification and communication among people and things, and exploitation of data capture, define the so-called Internet of things. This is opening an opportunity not only to extend the current e-Health approaches to a more pervasive and mobile healthcare prevention, by connecting citizens’/patients’ clinical and everyday devices to the Internet, but also to interconnect them with clinical platforms through the advantages from technologies such as smart clinical devices and wireless technologies. Furthermore, new identification and tracking solutions are being defined for hospital equipment, and new smart knowledge-based algorithms are developed to support personalized decision-making in the health and home care sector. Additionally, their applications in supplementary sectors such as pharmaceutical, in order to improve drug compliance and avoid adverse drugs reactions.

The objective of this issue is to report high quality research on recent advances developed in various aspects of e-health, more specifically the state-of-the-art approaches, methodologies, and systems in the design, development, deployment, and innovative use of the technologies, tools, and applications from the Future Internet of Things, People and Services for healthcare and prevention. We invite authors to submit their original papers and contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

-- Medical communications, protocols, standards and interoperability
-- Personal healthcare informatics solutions
-- Wireless Sensor Networks technologies for e-Health (e.g. 6LoWPAN/Bluetooth/WiFi)
-- Sensor technologies for e-Health and personal healthcare (e.g. ISO/IEEE 11073)
-- Identification technologies for e-Health, surgical and medical systems (e.g. QR/RFID/NFC)
- Wearable and continuous health monitoring
-- e-Health service management (e.g. Web of Things)
-- Elderly homecare, Tele-health, and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
-- Usability and HCI interfaces based on mobile computing and the Internet of Things
-- Personal Health Record, Information Systems, and Knowledge-Based Solutions
-- Global Healthcare and Citizens’ Prevention
-- Medication adherence, clinical guideline compliance and pharmaceutical applications
-- Tools and techniques to design, implement, and deploy IoT solutions
-- Mobile computing and Ubiquitous Healthcare applications
-- Living labs and field trials with the Internet of Things technologies

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the format and instructions hereto defined in the (www.jmir.org/cms/view/Instructions_for_Authors:Instructions_for_Authors_of_JMIR), and submitted through the Web-Based Manuscript Submission and Tracking System. When submitting, select section “Theme Issue on Internet of Things: Towards Mobile and Ubiquitous Healthcare and Prevention”, in the manuscript type to indicate that the paper is intended for this theme issue.

An OPEN CALL for submissions is issued. In addition, the best papers from the International Workshop on Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things (esIoT) will be invited to submit a manuscript. For further information, see www.esiot.com.

All contributions will be peer reviewed. As JMIR is an open access journal, authors publish their work under a creative commons license and keep the copyright. Articles will be freely accessible on the JMIR site and will be available in open access archives such as Pubmedcentral.gov.

These articles will be indexed in more than 20 bibliographic databases and abstracting services, including Medline, CINAHL, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Communication Abstracts, The Informed Librarian Online, LISA, EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, PsycINFO, LISTA (Library / Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts), ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) database, CSA Social Services Abstracts database, Pubmed Central, and other databases and abstraction services. Publication costs (APF: article processing fee) for copyediting, and typesetting must be covered by the authors.

TIMELINE AND DEADLINES
-- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: December 15th, 2012
-- PUBLICATION: The publication is scheduled to end 2013/beginning 2014

EDITOR-in-Chief
Gunther Eysenbach MD, MPH, FACMI.
Editor & Publisher, Journal of Medical Internet Research
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

RECOMMENDATION: before submit your paper be awareness that JMIR is not an engineering journal, and it will not be published overly technical papers with no real-live application and a thorough evaluation. Therefore, it is required high-quality research articles with technical background, but this also should have a health angle, and an evaluation in hospitals, clinics, living labs, patient‟s homes, residencies, or Ambient Assisted Living scenarios.

For further information, please contact the Guest Editors or the Editor-in-Chief

The Journal of Emergency Nursing is looking for manuscripts particularly for the topics listed below, but is interested in any papers related to emergency nursing and emergency patient care.

-- Advanced Practice Issues
-- Cardiology
o Cardiac Arrhythmia Management in Emergency Care
o Management of Cardiac Problems
o Medications (including review of old and new medications)
o Protocols
o Management of Technological Cardiac Problems in the Emergency
Department (for example, LVAD)
-- Caring for Victims of Torture
-- Case Studies
-- The Challenges of Emergency Nursing and the Aging Workforce
-- Clinical Articles
-- Clinical Nurse Specialist Issues and Interests
-- Continuing Education Challenges
-- Critical Care Issues in the Emergency Department
-- Current Trends in Emergency Care Treatments: some examples
o Wound care
o Splinting
o Resuscitation
o Sepsis
-- “Cutting Edge” Procedures
-- Dealing with Cultural Diversity
-- EKG Interpretation
-- Emergency Care Policy and Advocacy

-- Emergency Management
-- Emergency Nurse Practitioner Roles and Cases
-- Emergency Nursing Pearls
-- Emerging Issues in Emergency Healthcare
-- Endocrinology Emergencies
o Diabetic Emergencies
o Diabetes Evaluation in the Emergency Department
-- Forensic Nursing
-- Geriatric Issues
-- How to Write for Publication
-- Implementation of Patient Care Standards
-- Infection Control in the Emergency Department
-- Information on Charging, Coding
-- Information on Use of Fast Tracks and Urgent Care Units
-- Injury Prevention Programs
-- International Emergency Nursing Practice
-- JCAHO Standards and How to Implement Them in the Emergency Department
-- Lab Value Interpretation
-- Leadership Topics
o What it Takes to be a Leader
o Leadership Examples
-- Legal Practice Issues
-- Legislative Updates: What Have You Done in Your City, State?
-- Lessons Learned from and Solutions Developed for Specific Emergency Department Situations
-- Management Issues
o Staffing
o Recruitment and Retention
--Management of the Patient with a Psychiatric Emergency
-- Military Emergency Nursing/Deployed Nursing
-- Nursing Exemplars
-- Obstetrics and Gynecological Emergencies
-- Orientation and Competency Training and Evaluation
-- Patient Assessment in the Emergency Department
-- Patient Flow Issues
-- Patient Safety Issues Specific to the Emergency Department
-- Pediatric Care and Challenges in the Emergency Department
-- Prehospital Issues
-- Protocols and Guidelines
-- Research Related to Emergency Nursing and Emergency Practice
-- Safety Stories (near misses and lessons learned)
-- Sexual Assault Issues, SANE Articles
-- Trauma Care and Patient Management
-- Use of Specific Equipment and its Application to Practice (in other words, does it work?)
-- Volunteer Experiences

If interested, please contact Reneé Holleran, JEN Editor, at
RHolleran@ena.org

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Medical Data Streams

An Elsevier Journal

Many artificial intelligence researchers coming from different areas (data mining, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, pattern recognition, fuzzy logic, databases, etc.) design new approaches or adapt some of the traditional algorithms to data streams. In many medical applications different domain experts, e.g. physicians (would) benefit from the integration of the streaming medical data into decision support systems.

The goal of this special issue is to gather researchers who deal with artificial intelligence for data processing, data management and knowledge discovery in clinical scenarios where data is produced as a continuous stream.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 18 Jun 2012 *
Review notification: 18 Sept 2012
Revised submission: 18 Nov 2012
Second notification: 18 Dec 2012
Camera-ready submission: 18 Jan 2013

* earlier submissions are welcome; review process will start immediately after submission

RATIONALE

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine is facing a new challenge, created by the rapid growth in information science and technology in general and the complexity and volume of data in particular. Medical settings are using sensors and networks of health information systems to integrate data from patients, which requires storage, processing and management operators to enable further analysis and knowledge discovery. The main issue is that this data production often takes the form of high-speed continuous flows of data.

Medical domains include several settings where data is produced in a streaming fashion, such as anatomical and physiological sensors, or incidence records and health information systems. New services appear allowing users to store and track information about their medical history, to connect to and stream data from medical devices. Medical data streams have become widespread and call for development of intelligent tools for making use of these data. Decision support, alerting services, ambient intelligence, assisted leaving and personalization services are just few examples of expected uses of actionable knowledge extracted from medical data streams. All of them are characterized by the high-speed at which huge amounts of data are produced, and often require fast and accurate information retrieval and analysis, that can effectively support clinical decisions.

Dealing with continuous, and possibly infinite, flows of data require different approaches for data processing and management, and further machine learning and knowledge discovery. Particular issues to address include summarization of infinite data, incremental and decremental learning, resource-awareness, real-time monitoring of changes and recurrences, etc. This is an incremental task that requires incremental algorithms that integrate very large data bases in medical domains. Streaming artificial intelligence is increasingly important in the research community, as new algorithms are needed to process medical data in reasonable time.

Furthermore, medical domains introduce extra peculiarities to the problem. For example, health information systems now deal with heterogeneous data sources, possibly distributed across health-care institutions. Moreover, this data integration requirement yields privacy-preserving issues. At the same time, it forces the system to take time, resources, and costs into consideration. Currently, generic techniques for intelligent analysis and learning from streaming data include also processing and management techniques which are widely spread in the applied computing research community. Also, in the medical domain, technological issues of data collection and storage, access, integration, information fusion, etc are also widely studied in the health informatics research community. However, adoption and development of tailored techniques for medical stream mining and clinical decision support is still to come.

The goal of this special issue is to present cutting-edge research from experts in data stream processing interested in medical applications and medical domain experts interested in timely analysis of their data streams for clinical decision support.

TOPICS

Topics include but are not restricted to processing, managing and knowledge discovery for:
Anatomical or physiological sensor data streams
Data streams in health-care
Integrating biomedical signals and electronic health records
Integrated health information data streams
Adaptive health information systems
Medical data stream models
Mobile and ubiquitous medical data streams
Data quality in medical data streams
Data streams integration in intensive care units
Remote monitoring of patients in hospital and ambulatory settings
Process mining from medical data streams
Case reports of medical scenarios where data is produced in a stream
Real-time and real-world applications using streaming medical data
Languages and ontologies for medical stream query
Integration with real-time enactment of clinical guidelines
Privacy and security issues in medical data streams

SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS

Pedro Pereira Rodrigues - LIAAD & Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Mykola Pechenizkiy - Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Mohamed Medhat Gaber - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Carolyn McGregor - University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
João Gama - LIAAd & Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal

PAPER FORMATTING, SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING

Authors should follow the guide to authors available at AIIM website to format their article. Please note that, for the initial submission, only PDF format of submissions is allowed. Papers to this special issue should be submitted by email to the guest editors at pprodrigues@med.up.pt and not via the online Elsevier Editorial System.

Each paper submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. The quest editors will screen the submissions for eligibility and quality. Special issue articles should report on significant previously unpublished work.

We do invite authors to submit their revised and substantially extended workshop and conference papers. As a rule of thumb the journal paper submission should contain at least 30% of new previously unpublished material. Please indicate in your cover letter whether the journal paper submission is based on or extend substantially a previously published conference or workshop paper, in case of which a description of what is new must be clarified in the submission.

All papers accepted to the special issue are subject to the final approval by the Editor-in-Chief of AIIM journal. It is planned that the articles will appear in one of the issues of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, edited and published by Elsevier, in 2013. AIIM typically has 9 issues per year.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Facilities: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu

Guest Edited by Jan Golembiewski Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Australia

The editorial team of Facilities are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to an exploration of evidence-based approaches to establish the most appropriate architecture for the psychiatric milieu.

Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850’s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care have change, so too do the facilities used to house, treat and manage patients. The shift to evidence based design (EBD) in hospital architecture means that the psychiatric milieu must follow suit.

The search for evidence to model psychiatric facilities is an important endeavour. But psychiatric illness isn’t like orthopaedics or cardiology, where the needs and satisfaction of staff and patients can be relatively easy to assess and evidence can be easily measured. Mental illnesses are a heterogeneous group of disorders, and there is a risk in categorising all psychiatric illnesses together and treating them alike. Environmental influences that exacerbate one condition frequently assist with another. As such, Facilities is soliciting approaches that are specific to:

geriatric psychiatry
mood disorders
the non-affective psychotic spectrum
psychiatric emergencies
substance-related disorders
facilities for forensic psychiatry

This list is not exhaustive and interested authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editor with alternative proposals. Please kindly take note of the following requirements if you wish to have your paper considered for this Special Issue:

The content of the paper must conform to the terms of reference of Facilities
All papers submitted will be subject to the normal double blind refereeing process undertaken by the journal
Submitted papers must not be under review by any other journal
The closing date for submissions is: 1st June 2012

Submissions to Facilities are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, Emerald's online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/f. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://msc.emeraldinsight.com