BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research. The journal has a special focus on eHealth, governance, health policy, health system quality and safety, healthcare delivery and access to healthcare, healthcare financing and economics, implementing reform, and the health workforce.
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11 October 2021
Black people were found to disproportionately experience adverse birth outcomes, associated with restrictive abortion policies in the US.
A study showed Hispanics recently diagnosed with diabetes were less likely to receive US guideline-directed care for the prevention of complications.
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Advancing Dementia Care
Edited by: Dr. Clarissa Giebel and Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 13 May 2020
Health Services Research for Opioid Use Disorders
Edited by: Dr. Kim Hoffman
Collection published: 31 March 2020
Management of Infectious Diseases in Health Systems and Services
Edited by: Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 19 March 2020
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Speed
96 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
62 days to first decision for all manuscripts
217 days from submission to acceptance
16 days from acceptance to publication
Citation impact
2.655 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.297 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.445 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.098 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
6,851,288 downloads
Social media impact
5912 Altmetric mentions