The International Journal of User Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) is a refereed, applied research journal designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of clinical problem solving in healthcare. The term "user" includes health professionals as well as patients and anyone who uses the web with a user name. These "users" generate an information flow that "drives" the system's workflow (hence the choice of the term "driven"). "User driven healthcare" aims at improved healthcare through clinical problem solving utilizing concerted experiential learning in conversations between multiple users and stakeholders, primarily patients, their relatives, health professionals, and other actors in a care giving collaborative network across a Web interface. The journal serves as a valuable academic platform for all these stakeholders to document and share their learning. (more details in this link: www.igi-global.com/ijudh)

 

IJUDH is published by IGI global publishers, Hershey, PA. The journal does not charge any publishing fee from the authors. All financial costs for production, copyediting and printing are incurred by the publisher. Contributors receive paper/electronic copies of the journal and all journals are available in print and e-copy.

 

The journal appears quarterly and maintains a rigorous review process and each IGI journal is accompanied by a year-end summation volume that is associated with the journal's affiliated book series.  IGI stresses the importance of index representation in the discipline's well regarded indices, such as Pubmed, Thomson Scientific, Ebsco, Scopus, etc. As IGI Global’s Web site continues to be updated, more Web based collaborative tools are getting incorporated.

 

We are looking forward to articles that not only follow the traditional IMRAD format but within that format also tell a story in plain language and in the researcher's own words reflect on why and how s/he embarked on that particular search and what were the day to day challenges and implications for overall healthcare outcomes from that search.

 

Here are detailed guidelines with respect to style, length etc: http://new.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf
 
Please write to the editor in chief ([log in to unmask]) if you would like to read an unpublished sample issue. 

 

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