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Journal of Healthcare Management

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ6295278 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Healthcare Management is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering management in health care. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Each issue prints an interview with a leading healthcare executive.

The journal was established in 1956 as Hospital Administration, and was renamed Hospital & Health Services Administration in 1976. It took its current name in 1998.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.102.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Journal of Healthcare Management” is journal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Journal, Healthcare and Management, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1976, 1998, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-01-01. For this dossier, Journal, Healthcare and Management is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6295278. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956, 1976, 1998 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Healthcare Management” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.