期刊名称：MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW ISSN： 1077-5587 出版频率： Bi-monthly 出版社： SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, USA, CA, 91320   出版社网址： http://online.sagepub.com/ 期刊网址： http://mcr.sagepub.com/ 影响因子： 3.929 主题范畴： HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal   Description: For over 60 years, Medical Care Research and Review (formerly Medical Care Review) has been a pioneering force in the area of health services research. During that time, the journal evolved from monthly abstracts to a well-respected journal carrying critical reviews of literature on organizational structure, economics, and the financing of health and medical care systems. Today, the journal's focus has expanded to reflect the growth of the field and the increasing importance of health services research -- while still maintaining the high standards that have kept Medical Care Research and Review at the forefront of health care research for over half a century. An Even More Valuable Resource For Researchers, Policy Makers, And Health Care Administrators Under its former title, the journal was a respected source of scholarly review articles that analyzed, critiqued and synthesized current literature and research in health care services. The journal's extended scope now includes original empirical and theoretical research and trends as well as the in-depth review articles for which the journal is known. Each issue now includes empirical research studies that provide policy makers with current information to make informed policy decisions, as well as to identify health care trends through the analysis of previously unpublished data. Covering Current Issues in Health Care Medical Care Research and Review covers timely aspects of health care such as: Economic issues in financing health care Impact of competition and regulation Managed care plans Organizational structure and behavior Patient/physician behavior Physician/hospital relationships and organizational strategies Political issues in health care Pharmaceutical drug lags in the US compared to Europe HIV/AIDS in rural areas Patients' expectations about medical care.     Instructions to Authors Medical Care Research and Review publishes peer-reviewed articles that focus on (1) syntheses of empirical and theoretical research on health services, (2) empirical health services and health policy research, and (3) data trends of interest to health services and health policy audiences. All three categories of articles examine a broad range of health services issues including organization, financing, managed care, quality of care, access to care, and patient-provider relationships. The mission of Medical Care Research and Review (MCR&R) is to provide essential information about the field of health services to researchers, policymakers, managers, and practitioners. MCR&R seeks three kinds of manuscripts: review articles that synthesize previous research in several disciplines and therewith provide guidance to others conducting empirical research as well as to policy makers, managers, and/or practitioners. For an example of a well written review article, please review the Award winner for the 2008 Best Article of the Year in MCRR at http://mcr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/65/4/379; methodologically rigorous empirical research that provides a significant contribution to previous knowledge; and articles that present new data and trends in the health care area or help us better understand how data can be used by the field. All submissions are reviewed by at least two referees. Every effort will be made to return reviewers’ comments within 2 months of submission. Review articles are limited to 40 pages (double-spaced, 12-point type with 1-inch margins, including tables, figures, and references). Empirical research articles should be kept to a maximum of 30 total pages and data trend articles to 20 pages. All manuscripts should contain a short section titled "New Contribution," following the Introduction, which highlights how the research goes beyond previous studies. It is expected that manuscripts falling into the category of empirical research will specifically address one or more explicit research questions of interest to policymakers, managers, and/or practitioners. Empirical research and review articles are required to have an explicit conceptual framework from which hypotheses, literature review, variables, and statistical techniques are derived. Authors are encouraged to submit any clarifying information with their manuscripts if they believe it would help in the review process. Examples include previous manuscripts that provide more detail on the data or methodology employed, actual copies of survey instruments used, and so forth. The manuscript itself must still contain sufficient methodological information for reviewers to assess its validity, however. Include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Endnotes and references should follow the text, with tables and figures following on separate pages. To facilitate anonymous review, the name, affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if available) of each author should be listed on a separate page. Please also list four to six keywords on the cover page. Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition (APA). Double-space all material, including the abstract, endnotes, references, quotations, appendixes, and tables. Do not use bold or italic type; indicate italics by underlining. Each table and figure should appear at the end of the document file, grouped together after the reference section. Except for size, all figures will appear as submitted; they must be camera-ready. Please do not submit glossies. Written permission must be obtained from the copyright holder for all quotations of more than 500 words from any one academic source, for any tables and/or figures taken from a source in which you do not hold the copyright, and for all quotations of any length from newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, magazines, movies, songs, or poems. Reference Style: In the text, you should list the author(s)’ last name and year of publication. For example, you might write, “Smith (1989) asserts that …”, or alternatively, “Most researchers assert that ...” (Smith, 1989). If there are two authors, you would use Smith and Jones (1989) or (Smith & Jones, 1989). If there are three, four, or five authors, list all names on the first citation, and Smith et al. (1989) or (Smith et al., 1989) for each citation thereafter. If there are more than five authors, use Smith et al. (1989) or (Smith et al., 1989) from the first citation. Submission to MCR&R implies that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by any other journal. Following publication, 1 complimentary copy of the issue will be furnished by the publisher for each author. Additional reprints will be available for purchase. Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of SPi, a non-affiliated company that offers Professional Editing Services to authors of journal articles in the areas of science, technology, medicine or the social sciences. SPi specializes in editing and correcting English-language manuscripts written by authors with a primary language other than English. Visit http://www.prof-editing.com for more information about SPi’s Professional Editing Services, pricing, and turn-around times, or to obtain a free quote or submit a manuscript for language polishing. Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with SPi and makes no endorsement of the company. An author’s use of SPi’s services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement an author enters into will be exclusively between the author and SPi, and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of the author. Editorial Board Editorial Board: Editor: Gloria Bazzoli Virginia Commonwealth University Editor Emeritus: Jeffrey A. Alexander University of Michigan Thomas H. Rice University of California, Los Angeles Editorial Board: Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William E. Aaronson Temple University Laurence Baker Stanford University Jill Bernstein Consultant Richard Brown University of California, Los Angeles Lawrence Casalino University of Chicago Michael Chernew Harvard Medical School Jon B. Christianson University of Minnesota Carolyn Clancy Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Jan Clement Virginia Commonwealth University Peter Cunningham, Ph.D. Center for Studying Health System Change Thomas A. D'Aunno INSEAD Gregory de Lissovoy United BioSource Corporation Kelly Devers, Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University Bryan Dowd University of Minnesota Myron D. Fottler University of Central Florida Bruce Fried University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jon Gabel NORC Steven A. Garfinkel American Institutes for Research Deborah Garnick Brandeis University Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D. University of Maryland David Grabowski Harvard Medical School Jessica Greene University of Oregon Judith Hibbard University of Oregon Richard Hirth University of Michigan Timothy Hoff State University of New York, Albany Haiden Huskamp Harvard Medical School Gerald Kominski University of California, Los Angeles R. Tamara Konetzka University of Chicago Richard Kronick University of California, San Diego Paula Lantz University of Michigan Douglas Leslie Medical University of South Carolina Richard C. Lindrooth, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina Anthony LoSasso University of Illinois at Chicago Barbara Mark, Ph.D., R.N. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Nelda McCall Laguna Research Associates Janet B. Mitchell RTI International Ernest Moy Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality David Nerenz Henry Ford Health System Harold Pollack University of Chicago Diane Rittenhouse University of California, San Francisco Meredith Rosenthal Harvard School of Public Health Dennis Scanlon Pennsylvania State University Julie Sochalski University of Pennsylvania Shoshanna Sofaer Baruch College, City University of New York Joanne Spetz University of California-San Francisco Sally Stearns University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC