About the Journal

Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP, The Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Interim Dean of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the publisher of the Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI.

Maria Soto-Greene, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP, Executive Vice Dean of New Jersey Medical School and TBN  Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, are Associate Producers of the Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI

Steven E. Keller, Ph.D. is the founding editor-in chief of the Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI.

Kristin Wong, M.D.  is the Associate Editor of the Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI

at the New Jersey Medical School.

 

From the Editor, Steven E. Keller:

Of all the research modalities available to most clinicians, quality assurance and quality improvement (QA/QI) studies are the most cost-effective manner to improve patient health outcomes.  QA/QI simply askes the question “are we following the best evidence-based guidelines for” any treatment or screening in medicine.  A simple review of randomly selected charts will provide the clinician with invaluable information to be used to improve their practice of medicine and thereby improve patient outcomes.  QA/QI is not seeking to test or generate hypotheses but simply to assure we are doing the best for our patients.

 

It is ironic, given how critically important QA/QI studies are, that almost every medical journal will not even consider publishing basic QA/QI studies.  Furthermore, the culture of manuscript submission and review is often combative and dismissive which intimidates and deters most non-research orientated clinicians.  Our journal, Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI addresses these shortcomings: We only publish QA/QI manuscripts and we work with authors through individual mentoring if needed, to develop high quality peer reviewed publications.  Our Journal has 3 sections intended to be inclusive of the levels of training of our healthcare providers: faculty, residents and students. It is our intention to address the needs and concerns of authors at all levels of training in terms of manuscript preparation and revision if required.

 

The goal of our Journal is to improve the health care outcomes of our patients by making accessible QA/QI manuscript publication for all clinicians.  With a minimum of effort and expense we can take advantage of the advances in medical research by applying the best evidence-based medicine to our individual patient populations through carefully designed and implemented QA/QI studies.  Our journal, the Rutgers Medical Journal of QA/QI provides a forum for our entire community to benefit from these studies.