Journal of Patient Safety

Journal of Patient Safety is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with the harm that occurs during health care and with the measures that keep it from reaching patients, ranging from the measurement of error to the redesign of clinical work.《患者安全杂志》是一份同行评审刊物，处理医疗过程中发生的伤害以及如何阻止这些伤害落到患者身上，选题从差错的测量延伸到临床工作的重新设计。

The title began in the United States after the national argument over medical error that opened in the late 1990s, and it gave that argument a standing place in the scholarly literature.该刊在美国问世，背景是 1990 年代末展开的医疗差错公共争论，这场争论由此在学术文献里有了固定版面。

Clarivate lists it in both the science and the social science edition, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports record an impact factor of 1.9 together with a five-year figure of 2.5.Clarivate 把它同时收入自然科学与社会科学版别，2025 年度《期刊引证报告》记录影响因子 1.9、五年影响因子 2.5。

Its stated audience runs across the health professions, and the editors treat the mixture of research findings and practice reports as useful from bench to bedside.目标读者横跨卫生各专业，编辑方把研究发现与实践报告并存的编排视为从实验室到病床都可用。

Scope

• The aims statement commits the title to research advances and field applications in every area of patient safety, so empirical studies sit beside accounts of work that has already been changed.办刊说明把刊物定位于患者安全所有领域的研究进展与实践应用，实证研究与已经改动过的工作记录并排出现。
• Near misses and hazards that stopped short of injuring a patient belong to the core remit, together with analyses of the defences that nearly failed.未遂事件与尚未伤及患者的隐患属于核心选题，防线险些失效的分析也在其列。
• Published work handles system modification, rather than individual behaviour, as the main barrier against error, in line with the declared interest in design change.已刊论文把系统改造当作防范差错的主要屏障，个人行为的成分退居其次，这与刊物声明的设计取向一致。
• Regulatory change and its consequences for the delivery of care are an explicit interest, covering accreditation requirements, reporting rules and inspection practice.监管变动对医疗提供的后果是明示的兴趣点，涉及评审要求、报告规则与检查实务。
• Medication safety carries a large share of the pages, with studies of label design, prescribing, reconciliation during handoff and administration error on the ward.用药安全占据较大篇幅，已有论文研究标签设计、处方、交班核对与病区给药差错。
• Healthcare-associated infection and procedure-related harm recur, and skin antisepsis, catheter care and the operating-room checklist have each drawn dedicated papers.医院感染与操作相关伤害反复出现，皮肤消毒、导管护理与手术室核查表都各有专文。
• Diagnostic failure, missed appointments and gaps in follow-up after discharge have attracted a series of recent contributions.诊断失误、爽约与出院后随访缺口引来了一批近年的来稿。
• Safety culture measurement and workforce wellbeing are handled as safety questions, spanning survey validation, reporting climate and exhaustion as an organisational risk.安全文化测量与人员状态被当作安全问题处理，涉及量表验证、报告氛围以及作为组织风险的倦怠。
• Human factors methods appear in simulation work set in operating rooms and emergency departments, where equipment and team behaviour are tested under load.人因工程方法见于以手术室与急诊科为背景的模拟研究，设备与团队行为在压力条件下接受检验。
• Improvement science and collaborative programmes fall inside the scope, including the spread of a practice across hospitals and measurement of whether that spread held.改进科学与协作项目落在范围之内，内容含某项做法在多家医院的推广及其是否得以持续。
• Maternity care, paediatrics, intensive care and primary practice each serve as research settings, and transitions of care between them receive separate attention.产科、儿科、重症与基层医疗皆可作为研究场景，它们之间的照护转接另有关注。
• Digital tooling is in view, with papers and commentary on record alerts, machine-assisted detection of error and the safety questions raised by model output.数字工具进入视野，已有关于病历警报、机器辅助差错识别以及模型输出带来的安全问题的论文与评论。
• Cross-national comparison is welcome, and European as well as North American teams have contributed pieces on shared regulatory frameworks and on resilient health care.跨国比较受到欢迎，欧洲与北美团队就共同监管框架与韧性医疗写过文章。

History

• Volume 1 number 1 bears the date March 2005, and the catalog of the US National Library of Medicine records the journal as appearing in Philadelphia from that year onward.第 1 卷第 1 期标注 2005 年 3 月，美国国家医学图书馆的书目把它登记为 2005 年起在费城出版。
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Philadelphia publishing house, launched the title. The imprint now appears in publisher records alongside Wolters Kluwer Health, whose Ovid platform delivers the online edition.创刊方为费城的出版机构 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins，如今这一名号在出版记录中与 Wolters Kluwer Health 并列，在线版本由其 Ovid 平台承载。
• The same catalog entry describes the journal as the official publication of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the US advocacy body Lucian Leape helped to establish.同一书目条目写明它是 National Patient Safety Foundation 的官方刊物，这家美国倡导机构由 Lucian Leape 参与创建。
• The opening column of volume 1 came from Charles R. Denham, who compared quality work to a choir that has to rehearse before it can heal.第 1 卷的开篇专栏出自 Charles R. Denham 之手，他把质量工作比作必须先排练才能疗愈的合唱团。^[1]
• Nancy W. Dickey signed the editorial of record from 2006 and returned in 2010 with a retrospective on the field's first ten years.2006 年起社论由 Nancy W. Dickey 署名，她在 2010 年又发表了对该领域前十年的回顾。
• Among early contributors were agency officials and hospital leaders, and Carolyn M. Clancy wrote in 2009 about the distance still left after the 1999 report on error.早期作者中有机构官员与医院管理者，Carolyn M. Clancy 在 2009 年写下 1999 年差错报告之后仍存的差距。
• MEDLINE and PubMed coverage opens with volume 5 number 1 in March 2009, four years after launch, the point at which the title entered biomedical citation.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 的收录始于 2009 年 3 月第 5 卷第 1 期，即创刊四年之后，该刊由此进入生物医学引文体系。
• Through its first decade the journal kept four issues in every annual volume, a rhythm visible in the citation records from volume 2 through volume 11.创刊后的前十年每卷维持 4 期，第 2 卷到第 11 卷的引文记录都保持这一节奏。
• Issue numbering widened during the late 2010s, volume 17 already carrying an eighth issue, and the volumes for 2023 and 2024 each published eight issues.期数在 2010 年代末放宽，第 17 卷已出现第 8 期，2023 年卷与 2024 年卷各出版 8 期。
• In 2014 the editorial office reviewed published articles by Denham after his connections with a maker of skin preparation products were questioned, and an editorial by Albert W. Wu and Kevin T. Kavanagh reported the outcome.2014 年编辑部复核了 Denham 已刊的文章，起因是他与一家皮肤制剂厂商的关联受到质询，Albert W. Wu 与 Kevin T. Kavanagh 的社论公布了复核结果。^[2]
• Contemporary reporting on that episode placed Wu in the journal as an associate editor while he held a faculty post at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.对该事件的同期报道指出，Wu 在担任该刊副编辑时正在 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 任教。
• Editorial columns of the 2020s turned to pandemic strain and workforce exhaustion, and a 2021 piece by Jason S. Adelman and Tejal K. Gandhi asked health systems to spend the high-reliability reserves built before the pandemic.2020 年代的社论转向疫情压力与人员耗竭，2021 年 Jason S. Adelman 与 Tejal K. Gandhi 的文章要求医疗机构动用疫情前积累的高可靠性储备。
• Impact values moved from 2.243 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2023 and 1.9 in 2025, and the latest report counts 79 citable articles against 3051 recorded citations.影响因子从 2022 年的 2.243 回落到 2023 年的 1.7，2025 年记为 1.9，最新报告统计可引文章 79 篇、总被引 3051 次。
• Gold open access reached 27.17% of content in the 2025 report while the subscription model still governs the archive, and access moved from the early standalone domain to the publisher's journal platform.2025 年报告中完全开放获取（Gold OA）占内容的 27.17%，订阅模式仍管理着回溯文库，访问入口也从早年的独立刊网迁到出版商的期刊平台。

Editors

• Alan J. Card, a paediatric hospitalist at the University of California San Diego, wrote the 2023 editorial urging the field to move from investigating harm to preventing it.2023 年的社论由加州大学圣迭戈分校的儿科病房医师 Alan J. Card 撰写，他主张把重心从调查伤害移向预防伤害。^[3]
• The standing editorial team of associate editors has included practising clinicians and public health faculty, and the 2014 conflict-of-interest review was carried out by that team instead of outside referees.由副编辑组成的常任编辑团队包括临床医师与公共卫生学者，2014 年的利益冲突复核由团队内部完成，未交外部评审。
• Manuscripts enter through the title's Editorial Manager site, where authors register, upload files and follow the review record through to a decision.稿件经该刊的投稿系统 Editorial Manager 进入，作者在此注册、上传文件并跟踪评审记录直至决定发出。
• Editorial correspondence is listed at the publisher's Philadelphia office at Two Commerce Square on Market Street, the address carried in bibliographic records for the journal.编辑部通信地址为出版商位于费城 Market Street 的 Two Commerce Square，各书目记录中的该刊地址与此一致。
• Every article passes peer review before acceptance, and the published mix leans toward original research, with narrative commentary, editorials and letters making up the remainder.每篇文章录用前都要经过同行评审，刊载内容以原创研究为主，叙述性评论、社论与读者来信构成其余部分。
• Letters hold a fixed place, since the journal publishes short reader letters beside the responding authors' replies, allowing an argument to continue after a paper appears.读者来信有固定位置，刊物把来信与原作者的回应并列刊发，一篇文章的争论在出版之后仍可延续。
• Disclosure accompanies each piece, editorials included, and the printed statement reports whether an author held a financial relationship with a commercial interest.每篇文章都附披露声明，社论也不例外，声明写明作者与商业机构之间是否存在财务关系。
• The stated remit ties every contribution to the prevention of harm in care delivery, and the aims text asks for evidence and for findings a service can actually use.办刊说明把每篇来稿都系于医疗伤害的预防，正文既要有证据，也要给出服务机构真正用得上的发现。
• Editorial leadership has come from the American hospital system, while board and author geography reaches beyond it, with 2024 contributions from teams in the United Kingdom and Norway.编辑主持者出自美国医院系统，编委与作者的地理分布则超出美国，2024 年有英国与挪威团队发文。
• Editorial pages also argue policy directly, as in a 2021 column signed by Wolpaw and Adair that contended clinician burnout should count toward the designation of a centre of excellence.社论版面也直接就政策表态，2021 年署名 Wolpaw 与 Adair 的专栏主张把临床人员倦怠计入卓越中心的认定条件。