Clinical Research calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers: ACCP International Clinical Pharmacist

Audience: Clinical pharmacists, educators, and officials who oversee clinical pharmacy practice and education beyond North America

Individuals are invited to submit articles for publication in future issues of the newsletter in the following departments:

Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Clinical Pharmacist or Clinical Practice Profile
Patient Care
Research and Practice
Pharmacy Education
Continuing Professional Development

To obtain more information and submit an article, see Information for Authors at www.accp.com/docs/international/InformationForAuthors.pdf.

Departments:
ACCP International Clinical Pharmacist publishes several types of articles on matters of importance in pharmacy practice and education. A brief description of each type follows:

-- “Clinical Pharmacy Practice” highlights important contemporary professional and regulatory matters pertaining to clinical pharmacy practice.
Please note that the editor invites most “Clinical Pharmacy Practice” articles. However, unsolicited articles will be considered for publication.

-- “Clinical Pharmacist” or “Clinical Practice Profile” spotlights clinical pharmacists or clinical pharmacy services, especially those that feature national or institution-wide initiatives, expanding clinical services, or best practices.

-- “Patient Care” addresses issues related to therapeutic advances, health technology, practice models, and self-care or patient education and empowerment.

-- “Research and Practice” discusses key issues related to pharmacy practice and educational research of relevance to clinical pharmacists and educators.

-- “Pharmacy Education” focuses on issues of relevance to faculty/staff and clinical educators who teach and mentor pharmacy students and residents.

-- “Continuing Professional Development” reviews current and future practices in continuing professional development, continuing education, and certification.

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 Papers: European Journal of Heart Failure

The European Journal of Heart Failure is the International Journal of the European Society of Cardiology dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the field of heart failure.

As an author, you may be aware of the many factors to consider when choosing the best outlet for your work. Who do you want to read it? How quickly will it be published? Is Open Access offered? And, most importantly, who will cite it?

European Journal of Heart Failure is geared up to meet your needs on all these fronts.

• Leading European Heart Failure journal with an impact factor of 4.512
• Receive a rapid initial decision from the Editors – on average 20 days
• Fast publication time – under 4 weeks from acceptance to publication
• Welcomes submissions on basic science and clinical topics
• All papers freely available online 12 months after publication
• Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dirk Van Veldhuisen

If your work is novel, relevant to Heart Failure and likely to make a difference in the field, submit it to the European Journal of Heart Failure. Originality, timeliness, significance and scientific excellence are sole criteria for acceptance.

The European Journal of Heart Failure is published by Oxford Journals on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and is a member of the ESC Family of Journals.

Call for Papers: Family Practice Themed issue on Systematic Review

Family Practice invites submissions for a theme issue focused on systematic reviews related to important primary care topics. The objective of the themed issue is to summarize research that can advance the evidence-base of primary care. Articles discussing systematic review methodology will also be considered.

Authors should follow the guidelines by the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” (PRISMA) statement. Be sure to report funding sources for each study, and if reviewing drug or other commercial product interventions, also include author-industry financial ties, and author-industry employment.

Systematic review articles* will be rigorously evaluated using standard criteria:

Appropriate healthcare question
Literature searching strategy
Inclusion criteria
Quality assessment (Level of evidence)
Synthesis of findings
Interpretation of findings

The deadline for submissions for consideration for the themed issue is August 1, 2012

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 Papers on Pain Management for The Physician and Sportsmedicine

Submission Deadline: August 6, 2012

Fast-Track Deadline: September 17, 2012

Call for Papers on Rheumatology for The Physician and Sportsmedicine

Submission Deadline: June 11, 2012

Fast-Track Deadline: July 23, 2012

Call for Papers for a Cardiovascular Disease Theme Issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Over the past century as the West transitioned from an agrarian to an industrial economy, the nature of the dominant diseases afflicting humans changed from communicable to chronic conditions. During this epidemiologic transition, cardiovascular disease has ascended from an uncommon problem to its current position as the number one cause of death and disability worldwide.1​,2 This transformation of human disease is continuing as regional economies develop and the global population ages. In many high-income countries the onset of some cardiovascular events is being delayed from middle to older age and more people are living longer with various forms of cardiovascular disease. In middle- and lower-income countries the ascendancy of cardiovascular disease has been more rapid than in the West. Although some progress has been made in parts of the world in reversing trends in certain cardiovascular risk factors, major risk factors such as obesity are still on the rise globally.

The emergence of this cardiovascular disease epidemic has led to amazing advances in understanding of its pathophysiology and improvements in treatment. Health care systems have evolved to deal with acute manifestations of chronic diseases, such as myocardial infarction and stroke, improving survival and lessening disability. Secondary preventive strategies such as β-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors have improved long-term management. Preventive and public health measures (eg, diet modification and exercise) have reduced the rates of incident myocardial infarction and stroke in the West. However, the challenges to deal with this global burden of risk factors and cardiovascular disease remain substantial.

In November, as clinicians and scientists gather to exchange information and ideas about virtually all aspects of cardiovascular disease at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions, JAMA will publish a theme issue on cardiovascular disease. We at JAMA view this as an opportunity to share with our worldwide readers, listeners, and viewers important new findings on understanding of cardiovascular disease as well as of major challenges and future directions in its prevention, treatment, and longer-term management.

As we plan for this theme issue, authors are invited to submit manuscripts on any topic related to cardiovascular disease for consideration for this JAMA theme issue. A high priority will be given to manuscripts reporting results of major late-breaking clinical trials and other high-impact studies that will be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. These will be considered for simultaneous release at the time of the presentation. We are interested in high-quality clinically relevant original research that includes multicenter randomized trials and large-scale observational epidemiological studies. We also welcome scholarly work addressing how to expedite the adoption of effective cardiac therapies into clinical settings. Manuscripts on comparative effectiveness, application of cardiovascular disease treatments in clinical settings, prevention, and novel work that expands understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of cardiovascular disease will be considered. The effect of cardiovascular disease around the globe is also important to our readers.

Interested authors should consult the Instructions for Authors3​ for guidelines on preparation and submission of manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts will undergo JAMA 's usual rigorous editorial review and evaluation. Manuscripts received by July 1, 2012, will have the best chance for inclusion in the 2012 JAMA theme issue on cardiovascular disease. We encourage authors who anticipate presentation of late-breaking studies to communicate with editorial staff as early as possible.

REFERENCES

1. Omran AR. The epidemiologic transition: a theory of the epidemiology of population change. Milbank Mem Fund Q. 1971;49(4):509–538.

2. Olshansky SJ, Ault AB. The fourth stage of the epidemiologic transition: the age of delayed degenerative diseases. Milbank Q. 1986;64(3):355–391.

3. JAMA Instructions for Authors. http://jama.ama-assn.org/site/misc/ifora.xhtml.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Neuropsychology: Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease

In the last 10-20 years, there has been a growing body of literature relating to the cognitive impairments associated with Parkinson’s disease, including core cognitive processes such as recognition memory and attention, but more recently aspects of cognition such as prospective memory, decision-making and emotion recognition have also been explored. This research has moved beyond accounts of cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s, with implications for clinical management and real-life functioning for people with Parkinson’s. In addition to these important aspects, understanding the cognitive effects of Parkinson’s can illuminate normal function.

This special issue will comprise both reviews and empirical papers and cover a range of different cognitive processes in Parkinson’s including (but not limited to) reward, decision-making, memory, inhibition, hallucinations and action processing. Bringing together these topics and different approaches to the question of cognition in Parkinson’s will make for a thought-provoking and cutting edge special issue, which will be of interest to both basic scientists and clinicians.

Please send an email expression of interest to jnp@wiley.com, giving a brief outline of your proposed article prior to submission to the special issue. The closing date for submissions will be 30th June 2012.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) intends to publish a special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. Given that a sufficiently large number of papers are accepted, these papers will appear as a group in a separate publication which will be the second part of a regular issue. Examples of such special issues may be found in the part two's of the January 2002, March
2005, September 2008, and November 2011, and January, February, and March 2012 issues.

General Topic
Therapeutic ultrasound is becoming an important medical technology, with exciting new developments in science, instrumentation, and clinical applications. It is envisioned that this special issue will provide a comprehensive indication of the best work that is currently being done in this emerging and growing area, and that it will serve as an archival reference for future research eorts. Papers are solicited over the entire discipline, including topics on characterization and metrology of acoustic fields of therapeutic devices, physical mechanisms of ultrasound-induced bioeffects and dosimetry, instrumentation, and clinical aspects of such therapies as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), lithotripsy and shock wave therapy, physiotherapy, low amplitude therapy, ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, gene therapy, and others. However, prospective authors should note that papers published in JASA must fulll the requirement that the content must primarily focus on acoustics rather than be merely applicable to acoustics. Papers of a review nature will require special approval.

How to Submit Papers
Papers should be submitted in the usual manner for JASA via the Peer X-Press site. Go to the site http://asadl.org/jasa/ and click on the item "Submit to Journal."

When you submit a paper via the online submission process, you will ll out an outline form that is the same for all papers that are submitted. However, the form will include a new feature in the portion of the form that has a tab for "Keywords and PACS-43 Index Terms." There will be a drop down list at the bottom of the page that is labelled as "Special Issues." All special issues currently in progress will be listed in this drop-down list. The special issue you should select is TU (for Therapeutic Ultrasound).

To make doubly certain that your paper will be grouped with others intended for the special issue; you should upload a cover letter that identies the paper as intended for the special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. A footnote with such identication should also appear on the title page of the manuscript. Authors should also send an e-mail to the Guest Editors [Lawrence A. Crum (lac@apl.washington.edu) and Vera A. Khokhlova (vera@acs366.phys.msu.ru)] informing them of the submission. The editors reserve the right of deciding whether the topic of the submission is appropriate for the special issue, but all submitted papers will be considered for publication in the Journal.

Peer-review and editorial decisions of submitted articles will be handled with the usual processes, but those accepted for the special issue will be be grouped together for the publication in the special issue.

Deadlines and Relevant Dates
Papers intended for the special issue should be submitted before August 31, 2012. The intent is that all papers accepted on or before December 1, 2012, will be passed-on to the production department for publication as a special issue. It is recognized that the progression of submitted manuscripts through the JASA Peer X-Press system takes a variable amount of time, sometimes as long as a year, although 3 months is the desired objective. If a manuscript is not fully accepted before December 1, 2012, it is unlikely that it will be possible to include it in the special issue. It is highly unlikely that any manuscript submitted after August 31, 2012 will be accepted sufficiently rapidly to be included. The time taken to review a manuscript is difficult to estimate in advance, and authors are frequently asked to submit revisions before a paper is nally accepted. The best strategy, if one desires a manuscript to be included, is to submit it as soon as possible. Papers accepted after the deadline will be published in the Journal, but not in the special issue.

Introductory Editorial
A brief editorial introducing the topic and the papers will be written by the Guest Editors Lawrence A. Crum and Vera A. Khokhlova in collaboration with the authors of the accepted papers.