A Peer-Reviewed Journal for Hospital and Organized Health Care Systems Pharmacists

Editorial Manager is an online submission and review system for Hospital Pharmacy journal. HP is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the dissemination of high-quality information on all areas of interest to pharmacists practicing in the inpatient and outpatient setting within hospitals, long-term care facilities, home care, and other health-system settings. HP welcomes your manuscript. All manuscripts, whether submitted or solicited, will undergo peer review.

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Manuscript Categories

Summaries of guidelines for the most frequently submitted article types are listed below.

Original Articles Review Articles Brief Reports Case Reports Letters to the Editor

Original Articles:

These include any formal research studies (e.g., randomized, controlled trials), outcomes research, economic analyses, intervention studies, or case-control series. The objective and hypothesis should be clearly stated.

Review Articles:

Consists of a critical review of a specific topic, including meta-analyses. Information on the type of study or analysis, population studied, intervention(s) utilized, and all outcomes should be included for all literature cited. Describe the selection process used for all data included in the review.

Brief Reports:

These are succinct reports on research in progress or results of pilot studies. They may contain no more than two tables or figures (total) and no more than 10 references.

Case Reports:

These reports of late-breaking news important to pharmacy practitioners should be no more than 1500 words in length (6 double-spaced typed pages). Limit tables and figures to no more than two total.

Letters to the Editor:

Letters to the Editor are encouraged to clarify published information or correct publishing oversights. Letters should be no more than 500 words in length with five or fewer references.

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Tutorials

Tutorial for Authors (PDF)	Adobe Acrobat Reader required
Tutorial for Reviewers (PDF)

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User Requirements

You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the document files.

1. Use Adobe Acrobat reader, 5.0, free download available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
2. Confirm with your IT department that you have "administrator privileges" within your institution's computer network to run Adobe Acrobat reader.
3. Confirm with your IT department that the HTTPS port (443) is open. This is the same port that needs to be open to allow someone to do things such as making a purchase from an online store such as Amazon.com.
4. Try printing the manuscript from the "View" screen rather than downloading and then printing.

If you experience difficulty utilizing this software, you should contact your Information Technology Department for assistance. Adobe also offers a help database for their free reader at this address: http://knowledge.adobe.com/kanisaesp.asp?AdobeProduct=acrobat_reader

Following is a list of computer system requirements and also supported file formats for manuscript submission:

WINDOWS

• 95, 98, ME (Not Recommended), NT 4, 2000, 2000 Pro, XP (Pending)
• Internet Explorer 5.x and later
• Netscape 4.7 and later (Netscape 6.x NOT supported at this time)

MACINTOSH

• 8.x, 9.x OS X (Pending)
• Internet Explorer 5.x and later
• Netscape 4.7 (Netscape 6.x NOT supported at this time)

LINUX

• Red Hat 6.2 and later
• Netscape 4.76

SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS:
Word, WordPerfect, RTF, LaTeX2e, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, Postscript, PICT, PDF

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