Please join us in celebrating the journal's first Impact Factor (2022) of 3.7!
Patient Safety in Surgery has seen great success in the past few years, surpassing 500,000 article downloads in 2022. Excitingly, if trends continue as they are, we expect even more for 2023, with an average of nearly 60,000 downloads seen each month of this year so far!
We would like to thank our Editors-in-Chief, Prof Philip F Stahel and Prof Pierre-Alain Clavien, alongside all members of the Editorial Board, reviewers and authors for their contribution to the journal and it's success over the years.
If you would like to read more about the journal's history and recent success, please see a link below to an Editorial that Patient Safety in Surgery's Editors-in-Chief co-authored with several members of the Editorial Board to celebrate the journal's first impact factor.
Read MorePatient Safety in Surgery is an open access PubMed-indexed journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in the field of surgical patient safety, and beyond.
The journal’s mission is to provide an international forum for healthcare professionals to report, discuss, debate, and critically review all aspects of care delivery that impose a risk on patient safety, with the ultimate goal of eliminating preventable adverse events and improving patient outcomes on a larger scale.
Patient Safety in Surgery is taking part in a special issue in collaboration with World Journal of Emergency Surgery to address the global burden of antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance on surgery and patient safety before, during, and after surgery, with a particular interest in the emergency surgery setting.
Guest Editor: Massimo Sartelli, MD, Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery & Macerata Hospital, Italy.
Submission Status: Open until 31 October 2024.
Guest Editors:
Kathryn Holland: Mission Health, United States
Roy Nanz: Mission Health, United States
Submission Status: Closed
The Correction to this article has been published in Patient Safety in Surgery 2021 15:22
“Enhanced Recovery After Surgery” (ERAS) represents a globally established best-practice protocol aimed at reducing the intraoperative stress response in patients undergoing surgical procedures and thereby improving patient safety, patient experience, and patient outcomes. The standardized multimodal ERAS protocol streamlines the perioperative management of surgical patients with a focus on reducing preoperative patient fasting, optimizing carbohydrate loading, and preventing opioid-associated adverse effects by multimodal pain management strategies via opioid-sparing or opioid-free anesthesia modalities. The current featured article describes a national survey from Australia designed to assess the knowledge and attitude among surgeons, anesthesiologists, and perioperative nurses towards the proven benefits of the ERAS protocol. In spite of general awareness and conceptual support, the authors reported a significant gap in knowledge about the ERAS protocol among the 178 perioperative healthcare professionals who participated in the study. These insights provide an imperative to further promote and disseminate the proven benefits of the evidence-based ERAS protocol with the intent of improving surgical patient safety and postoperative patient outcomes on a global scale.
"This is an exciting time to be involved in promoting a global culture of patient safety among all healthcare providers, particularly for the next generation of physicians and surgeons. Current patient safety protocols continue to fall short of protecting our patients from suffering unintended harm. Our journal provides a forum for reporting, discussing, and designing new patient safety standards for the future."
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2022 Citation Impact
3.7 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.0 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.889 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
0.738 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
2023 Speed
4 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
41 days submission to accept (Median)
2023 Usage
620,998 downloads
168 Altmetric mentions
Patient Safety in Surgery