Aims and Scope
**Aim:**
The aim of "AHQAQ" is to serve as a premier platform for disseminating cutting-edge research in the field of health quality assessment and quantification. This journal seeks to publish high-quality original research, reviews, and methodological advancements that contribute to the understanding, measurement, and improvement of health care quality across diverse settings and populations.
**Scope:**
"AHQAQ" covers a broad spectrum of topics related to health quality assessment and quantification, including but not limited to:
1. **Quality Measurement and Indicators**: Development and validation of quality indicators, metrics, and frameworks for assessing healthcare quality in clinical, organizational, and population-based contexts.
2. **Healthcare Outcomes and Performance Assessment**: Analysis of healthcare outcomes, patient safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and patient-reported experiences to evaluate the performance of healthcare systems, services, and interventions.
3. **Quality Improvement and Implementation Science**: Studies focusing on strategies, interventions, and innovations aimed at enhancing healthcare quality, patient outcomes, and the translation of evidence into practice.
4. **Health Information Technology and Data Analytics**: Applications of health informatics, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital health technologies to assess, monitor, and optimize healthcare quality, processes, and decision-making.
5. **Patient-Centered Care and Shared Decision-Making**: Research exploring patient-centeredness, shared decision-making, patient engagement, and the integration of patient preferences and values into healthcare quality assessment and improvement initiatives.
6. **Healthcare Policy and Management**: Examination of policy interventions, regulatory frameworks, organizational leadership, governance structures, and financial incentives impacting healthcare quality, safety, and value-based care delivery.
7. **Health Disparities and Equity**: Investigations into disparities in healthcare quality, access, and outcomes across demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic groups, and strategies to promote health equity and reduce disparities.
"AHQAQ" welcomes contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives, including health services research, epidemiology, health economics, public health, clinical medicine, nursing, health policy, and implementation science. The journal encourages submissions of empirical studies, theoretical analyses, systematic reviews, methodological innovations, case studies, and commentaries that advance knowledge and inform practice in health quality assessment and quantification.