Editor’s Notebook: A New Look, Nickname, and Expanded Content
March / April 2012
Editor’s Notebook
A New Look, Nickname, and Expanded Content
With this issue, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare has a new look, a fresh approach to news items, and better integration with related offerings at www.psqh.com. The most obvious change is the prominence of PSQH on the masthead. We who work on the publication have always used the acronym as a nickname, and with the new design, acknowledge that P-S-Q-H rolls off the tongue more easily than the full name. That said, the editorial focus of this publication and its website will continue to be trained on patient safety and quality healthcare—concerns that have evolved over the years and which continue to pose a significant challenge for everyone engaged in healthcare.
News items, which in the past appeared occasionally in sections called Pulse and Trends toward the “back of the book,” will now be found reliably in the front of each issue with additional recommendations and links to blog posts, archived materials, and original articles on www.psqh.com.
Expanded Offerings Online
In addition to the bimonthly print issue, PSQH offers the eNews Alert—a twice monthly compilation of recent news items, blog posts, and calendar items that subscribers receive by email, with direct links to www.psqh.com. To sign up for a free subscription to the eNews Alert, visit www.psqh.com/subscriptions.
We continue to expand the materials we offer on www.psqh.com. Recently, for example, I reported on David Classen’s presentation at HIMSS about the 2011 Institute of Medicine report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. Readers will find that published as a blog post at http://bit.ly/GYELHR. Online, we encourage readers to participate by commenting on blog posts and continue to welcome manuscript submissions for publication in print or online.
All articles published in the print version of PSQH are also available online in a digital version that’s available through a link on www.psqh.com and by subscription at www.psqh.com/subscriptions. All articles are also available and searchable online. We have begun to compile PSQH articles under topic areas, beginning with fall prevention and medication safety, which appear under Topics, at the right-hand end of the menu bar on the home page.
Social media continue to gain momentum as more and more people use these tools to stay in touch with friends, colleagues, family, as well as with trusted news sources, organizations, and companies. PSQH currently participates in a number of social media. On Twitter, www.twitter.com/PSQHnews is tightly focused on news about the publication, with links to recently published articles and top news items about patient safety. At www.twitter.com/SusanCarr, I expand news about PSQH and patient safety with wider coverage of healthcare news, conferences, journalism, and writing.
We strive continually to improve PSQH in print and online. Please let me know at susancarr@psqh.com if you have feedback or suggestions.
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