Medical Care Research and Review
Medical Care Research and Review has been a pioneering force in the area of health services research. During its time, the journal has evolved from publishing 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.
2024 MCRR Article of the Year:
“Does Interdisciplinary Care Team Care Management Improve Health Quality and Demonstrate Cost-Effectiveness?”
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Medical Care Research and Review has been a pioneering force in peer-reviewed health services research for the past several decades. The journal publishes original empirical and theoretical research as well as the in-depth, theoretically driven review articles for which the journal has long been known. Across these article types, MCRR’s substantive scope covers the organization, financing, and delivery of health and medical care across the health care spectrum. Each issue includes a mix of in-depth literature reviews and rigorous empirical research studies which provide policy makers and health practitioners with information vital to improving the health care system.
Medical Care Research and Review covers timely aspects of health services research such as:
- Evaluation of the impact of changes in health policy and practice
- Health insurance markets and the impact of health reform
- Health Information Technology adoption and application in health delivery
- Impact of competition and regulation on health care markets and providers
- Health care disparities in access, treatment, and outcomes
- Population- and policy-related drivers of patient safety and quality of care
- Health care workforce issues
· Patient engagement in health care decision-making
- Economics and payment/financial issues in health care delivery
- Organizational structure and behavior of health organizations
- Key issues in health services research data and methods
Topics and types of studies that are generally out of scope for MCRR include:
- Epidemiological or clinical studies of individual risk factors for disease
- Small, single-site quality improvement or cost-effectiveness studies
- Simple associational studies, unless the study highlights a novel data source or previously unstudied trends of importance
- Studies conducted outside of the US that are unlikely to be generalizable beyond the study country
- Commentaries and opinion pieces
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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| R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD | University of Chicago, USA |
| Kathleen Carey, PhD | Boston University School of Public Health, USA |
| Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee, PhD | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Thomas A. D'Aunno | New York University, USA |
| Gloria J. Bazzoli | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Jeffrey Alexander | University of Michigan, USA |
| Thomas H. Rice | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Laurence Baker | Stanford University School of Medicine, USA |
| Joseph Benitez | University of Kentucky, USA |
| Betsy Q. Cliff | University of Chicago, USA |
| Alison Evans Cuellar | George Mason University, USA |
| Heather Davila | Iowa City Veterans Affairs and University of Iowa, USA |
| Kathryn Pitkin Derose | The Rand Corporation, USA |
| Marisa Domino | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA |
| Bryan Dowd | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Marc Elliott | The Rand Corporation, USA |
| Jemima A. Frimpong, PhD | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Bianca Frogner | University of Washington, USA |
| Todd Gilmer | University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Ezra Golberstein | University of Minnesota USA |
| Carol Roan Gresenz | Georgetown University, USA |
| Larry R. Hearld | University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA |
| Vanessa Hurley | Georgetown University, USA |
| Laura Keohane | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Hyunjee Kim | Oregon Health and Science University, USA |
| Alden Lai | New York University, USA |
| Douglas Leslie | Penn State Hershey Medical Center, USA |
| Richard C. Lindrooth | University of Colorado Denver, USA |
| Ann McAlearney | Ohio State University, USA |
| Mark Meiselbach | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| David J. Meyers | Brown University, USA |
| Rebecca Myerson | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| David Nerenz | Henry Ford Health System, USA |
| Jeongyoung Park | American Academy of Family Physicians |
| Marcelo Coca Perraillon | University of Colorado-Denver, USA |
| Harold Pollack | University of Chicago, USA |
| Dan Polsky | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA |
| Brady Post | Northeastern University, USA |
| Minakshi Raj | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA |
| Michael D. Rosko | Widener University, USA |
| Prachi Sanghavi | University of Chicago, USA |
| Dennis Scanlon | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Sara Jean Singer | Stanford University, USA |
| Fabrice Smieliauskas | University of Chicago, USA |
| Shawna N. Smith | University of Michigan, USA |
| Joanne Spetz | University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Sally Stearns | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
| Jasmine L. Travers | New York University, USA |
| Courtney H. Van Houtven | Durham Veterans Administration and Duke University Medical Center, USA |
| Daniel M. Walker | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Sijiu Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Teresa Waters | University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA |
| Rachel M. Werner | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA |
| Christopher Whaley | The Rand Corporation, USA |
| Herbert Wong | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, USA |
| Gary Young | Belmont University, USA |
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