Symptom Management and Pain Control
Clinical and translational evidence on symptom burden reduction, pain pathways, and quality-of-life outcomes.
Open Call for Palliative Care and Hospice Research
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Journal of Palliative Care and Hospice
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Current Call
Call for Papers in Palliative Care and Hospice Science and Translation
JPCH invites high-quality manuscripts that advance palliative care and hospice discovery, characterization, and therapeutic application.
Journal of Palliative Care and Hospice welcomes clinical, translational, computational, and synthetic studies with measurable scientific and practical value.
Priority is given to submissions that combine methodological rigor with clear implications for palliative care and hospice design, development, and biological interpretation.
Interdisciplinary evidence connecting symptom science, service delivery, ethics, communication, and policy is strongly encouraged.
Hospice Care Delivery Models
Research on care coordination, interdisciplinary pathways, and measurable hospice service outcomes.
Psychosocial and Bereavement Support
Studies on caregiver burden, communication quality, mental health, and grief-support interventions.
Decision-Making and Ethics
Evidence on advance care planning, shared decision processes, and ethically complex end-of-life scenarios.
Health Systems and Policy
Implementation studies on access, equity, workforce design, reimbursement, and service performance metrics.
Digital and AI-Enabled Care
Data-driven tools supporting prognostication, triage, documentation quality, and care-planning workflows.
Quality Expectations
What Strong Manuscripts Demonstrate
Editorial triage prioritizes clarity, rigor, reproducibility, and practical scientific relevance.
- Clearly justified study question and design logic aligned to stated objectives.
- Transparent methods for recruitment, care setting definition, and outcome assessment workflows.
- Appropriate statistical framing and uncertainty reporting for key outcomes.
- Balanced discussion of limitations and translational boundaries.
- Complete ethics, funding, and conflict declarations where applicable.
- Consistent terminology and accurate references across all sections.
Submissions should explain how results influence palliative care and hospice strategy, model selection, or development decisions.
Studies with strong reproducibility documentation are highly valued during review and editorial decision-making.
Submission Routes
Two Submission Methods, One Review Standard
Both routes are supported by the same editorial quality framework and review governance.
Manuscriptzone
Recommended for teams requiring structured metadata entry, revision tracking, and institution-friendly workflow control.
Simple Manuscript Submission
A lightweight route for fast intake and direct editorial routing when teams prefer a simplified process.
Pre-submission Support
Scope and formatting questions can be sent to [email protected] before upload to reduce avoidable delays.
Scope note: manuscripts outside palliative care and hospice relevance may be declined at triage to preserve review efficiency.
Submission Planning
Execution Notes for Higher Acceptance Readiness
Use these practical notes to improve clarity, policy alignment, and review efficiency before final upload.
Editorial planning insight: Strong papers explain how findings influence palliative care and hospice design, translational strategy, or therapeutic decision pathways. This approach helps editors and reviewers evaluate the manuscript faster without sacrificing rigor.
Author workflow guidance: Endpoint hierarchy and experimental rationale should be explicit to support reviewer assessment quality. Teams that apply this step early usually reduce revision friction and protect publication timelines.
Quality acceleration note: Submissions that address reproducibility, implementation feasibility, and care-delivery barriers are encouraged. The same practice also improves metadata quality and downstream indexing discoverability.
Submission strategy point: Method transparency reduces avoidable revision cycles and improves editorial efficiency. It supports stronger decision transparency and more efficient peer-review communications.
Publication readiness reminder: Collaborative multi-site studies should describe harmonization strategy for protocols and outcome measures. This improves consistency between core manuscript sections and supporting files.
Operational recommendation: For call for papers planning, document reviewer-response changes against exact manuscript locations; state practical limitations and boundary conditions explicitly. This supports cleaner editorial decisions and faster acceptance readiness.
Reviewer-facing clarity note: For call for papers planning, confirm metadata fields and author identifiers before production lock; ensure data and code availability statements match policy language. This improves downstream indexing quality and retrieval relevance.
Production planning guidance: For call for papers planning, tighten conclusion language so claims remain proportional to data strength; ensure data and code availability statements match policy language. This improves downstream indexing quality and retrieval relevance.
Editorial planning insight: For call for papers planning, align title, abstract, and keyword language with the primary evidence claim; verify that tables, figures, and narrative statements remain consistent. This protects release schedules by reducing production-stage rework.
Author workflow guidance: For call for papers planning, map each major result to a clear methods description and reproducibility note; verify that tables, figures, and narrative statements remain consistent. This protects release schedules by reducing production-stage rework.
Quality acceleration note: For call for papers planning, separate prespecified analyses from exploratory findings in a traceable way; capture versioning notes where datasets or scripts may change over time. This increases trust for translational and evidence-synthesis readers.
Submission strategy point: For call for papers planning, synchronize figure legends, unit definitions, and supplementary references; capture versioning notes where datasets or scripts may change over time. This increases trust for translational and evidence-synthesis readers.
Publication readiness reminder: For call for papers planning, validate disclosure, funding, and ethics text before final upload; keep terminology stable across all manuscript files. This typically improves triage confidence and reviewer assignment precision.
Submit to the Current JPCH Call
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