Call for papers: Health outcomes, values and guidelines – expanding the scope of HQLO

Call for papers: Health outcomes, values and guidelines – expanding the scope of HQLO

Current special series and section editors: Dr Jan Brozek, Dr Yaolong Chen, Dr Pablo Alonso Coello, Dr Joerg J Meerpohl, Dr Yuan Zhang, Prof Holger Schünemann of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes invite you to submit to our special series and section: Health outcomes, values and guidelines.

Improving health outcomes is the ultimate goal of recommendations made in health guidelines and other guidance statements. People important outcomes (PIOs), including the relative importance of these outcomes, quality of life assessment, values and preferences and best methods for integrating them in health care guidelines are at the forefront of methodological and clinical practice research. Considering PIOs in the context of other criteria that influence a health care decision to achieve the greatest possible desirable consequences of a health care option is a preeminent goal of a guideline recommendation. The improvement of both the development of guideline recommendations through methodological research and practical application will now be considered for publication in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, beginning with a special series.