TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS ACCEPTED
Original Research Manuscripts should identify a clear research question and include an appropriate research design to report the clinical, economic, or other outcomes of a specific intervention or regulation. Full experimental details must be provided so that the study or results are capable of reproduction. IMPAQT℠ requires that authors publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible. The manuscript should be less than 3000 words, not including supplementary information such as the abstract, references, figures, and tables.
Review or Meta-Analysis Manuscripts should present a thorough synthesis of the literature and offer new insights and/or recommendations on improvements. The same length restrictions, format, and submission requirements for research manuscripts apply to review manuscripts.
Practice Forum Manuscripts address quality practices and related applications of performance improvement science and methods. Items should be less than 2500 words and include an introduction, overview, discussion, conclusion, references, and an abstract.
Commentaries are brief opinion pieces usually solicited from recognized thought leaders that discuss pertinent and sometimes disputable or debatable issues in healthcare. Manuscripts should be less than 1000 words and contain no figures or tables.
Editorials are used to accompany key manuscripts and either extend or offer opposing perspectives on a specific subject. The editors will consider editorials that comment on manuscripts published in IMPAQT℠ within the previous six (6) months. Manuscripts should be less than 1000 words and contain no figures or tables.
Letters to the Editor are published as space allows and should be no more than 500 words and contain no figures or tables.