Geriatrics calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology: Using Technology to Facilitate Chronic Disease Management

Guest Editors:
Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia

Chronic disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and economic loss in most countries today. Hence, it has become a central problem for healthcare and many are looking for solutions.

Early detection and prevention of chronic disease is one of the preferred strategies for reducing the incidence of chronic disease and address escalating cost issues. It has been widely documented that assisting chronic disease management through information technology tends to facilitate better health outcomes. We are therefore seeing several health IT projects being initiated and successfully supporting chronic disease management.

This special issue aims to host a discussion and discourse on the possible applications of IS/IT (information systems/information technology) to facilitate better chronic disease management.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Facilitating standardisation via including care plans and guidelines for health information systems and developing decision support systems for assisting healthcare providers' decision making

Technology for delivery of care, e.g. artificial pancreases, implants, telemedicine, radiology, smart devices such as insulin pumps and implants

Electronic health records; health information systems; computerised guidelines; prevention; patient education; care and assistance for elderly people; lifestyle modifications such as physical activities, nutrition, weight management and mental health

Design and development of portals, communication platforms and/or the role of online social networks

Applications for mobile solutions to facilitate monitoring and/or management

Specific technology solutions to address better monitoring and management of asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease, arthritis, chronic pain and obesity

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Papers due: 20 October, 2012

Review results: 31 January, 2013

Final paper due: 20 April 2013

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an email (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. Khin Than Win
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Informatics
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Email: win@uow.edu.au

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
RMIT University
College of Business
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
E-mail: nilmini.wickramasinghe@rmit.edu.au

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

Call for Papers on the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) for the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

One of the issues of the JNHA in 2012 will be dedicated to publications on the MNA. Juergen M Bauer, MD, PhD, Oldenburg, Germany, will serve as guest editor of the MNA issue.

In this context the following research areas will be of special interest:

Epidemiology (i.e. prevalence of malnutrition, geographical and ethnic variations, focus on specific populations – community-living, institutional)

Methodology (i.e. the MNA as a monitoring tool, adaptations of the BMI/CC-cut offs due to ethnicity)

MNA and functionality (i.e. cognitive status, frailty, disability)

MNA based interventions

Please submit your papers by June 30, 2012 to http://jnha.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

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Nursing Studies: Care of the Older Person

The International Journal of Nursing Studies journal will be publishing a Special Issue focusing on the care of the older person.

Trends in population aging, especially among the world’s developed nations, are demonstrating unprecedented growth which will have profound social, economic, and health implications in the near future. Nurses will be critical assets in the process of developing the health infrastructure to cope with the needs of an ageing society and the resulting complex clinical challenges. Such challenges will include the organisation of care and the management of multiple chronic health problems.

With the ultimate aim of improving the quality of care of older persons, research in nursing and related fields is urgently needed.
The International Journal of Nursing Studies is currently inviting papers which present the findings of studies evaluating interventions and innovations, descriptive studies using either or both quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as systematic reviews investigating the state of the science in discrete areas of elder care in any setting.

For further information – visit www.journalofnursingstudies.com

We would like to invite authors to submit their full manuscripts for consideration to the International Journal of Nursing Studies at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijns - Submit under ‘Special Issue – Older Person Nursing’ by 30 June 2012

The International Journal of Nursing Studies (IJNS) provides a forum for original research and scholarship about health care delivery, organisation, management, workforce, policy and research methods relevant to nursing, midwifery and other health related professions. The IJNS aims to support evidence informed policy and practice by publishing research, systematic and other scholarly reviews, critical discussion, and commentary of the highest standard.

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 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