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HEC Forum

HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum: An Interprofessional Journal on Healthcare Institutions' Ethical and Legal Issues

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HEC Forum is an international, peer-reviewed publication featuring original contributions of interest to practicing physicians, nurses, social workers, risk managers, attorneys, ethicists, and other HEC committee members. Contributions from all pertinent sources are included, written in a style written appealing to HEC members and lay readers. HEC Forum publishes essays and research papers, and includes such sections as Essays on Substantive Bioethical/Health Law Issues; Analyses of Procedural and Operational Committee Issues; Document Exchange; Special Articles; International Perspectives; Mt./St. Anonymous: Cases and Institutional Policies; Point/Counterpoint Argumentation; Case Reviews, Analyses, and Resolutions; Chairperson's Section; `Tough Spot'; Critical Annotations; Health Law Alert; Network News and Letters to the Editors.

HEC Forum is an official partner journal of the American Society for Humanities + Bioethics:

http://www.asbh.org/

Editor-in-Chief
  • Mark J. Cherry
Journal Impact Factor
1.3 (2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
1.1 (2023)
Submission to first decision (median)
18 days
Downloads
154,269 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1572-8498
Print ISSN
0956-2737
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