Review procedure

The manuscripts submitted are first received by the editor-in-chief who checks their correspondence with all formal and technical requirements. If the manuscript meets the formal and technical requirements, and if it meets the standards of a specialist text in the relevant scientific discipline (nursing, medical psychology, medical pedagogy, medical management, or law in health care), it continues to be approved in the review procedure. The manuscript is reviewed by two independent reviewers in a double-blind peer-review procedure. The review procedure is independent and objective; reviewers are bound to provide impartial, professional and quality assessment of the manuscript. Reviewers must treat the submitted manuscripts with confidentiality. Sharing manuscripts or their parts with a third party is not allowed. If both reviewers recommend the manuscript for publication with no objections, it is included in the upcoming issue of the journal. If either of the reviewers or both of them find fundamental errors in the text due to which it cannot be recommended for publication, they notify the author, who provides amendment to the manuscript and returns the corrected text to reviewers. In case of contradiction in reviewers’ assessments, the manuscript is given to another specialist for a third review. If it is assessed as not meeting the standards of a specialist scientific text by the third reviewer, the paper is not accepted for publication. Authors of manuscripts are always kept informed about reviewers’ standpoints and recommendations using the means of e-mail communication. Editors may return manuscripts to authors in case their submissions do not meet the required criteria or do not correspond with the scope of the journal. The executive editorial office keeps records of all submitted manuscripts, including those which were rejected before entering the review procedure. A final decision on publishing a submitted text is made by the editor-in-chief.