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Healthcare Management Forum is planning a special edition on patient advocacy for May 2026. Advocacy needs to be practiced consistently in order to lead healthcare redesign.
Authors are invited to submit a 200-word abstract to lwilson@cchl-ccls.ca by March 17, 2025. Abstracts should include a short overview of the proposed manuscript, the intended audience, and key messages for readers. Full articles are due for peer review by September 1, 2025. The editorial staff will consider the following topics:
Patient advocacy in health leadership across the continuum of care
- Acute care
- The role of the chief clinical officer in advocacy
- Advocacy as a driving force behind process and care delivery redesign
- Caregiver engagement as a strategy for patient advocacy
- How advocating for patients is the underpinning of all the decisions that we do in operating our hospitals and health systems
- Advocacy in the pediatric setting/advocacy in pediatric program design and development
- Sub-acute care
- The role of the CFO as a patient advocate
- Patient advocacy throughout the continuum of care; what does it look like in the post-acute setting
- The role of advocacy in keeping patients in their homes
- Physicians and providers
- Role of the physician in patient advocacy
- Patient perception
- What does it mean to be advocated for when you are in the patient role instead of the clinician role
- The strength/importance of a robust patient experience strategy as part of advocacy
Creating advocates
- Creating patient advocates during entry-to-practice education
- The role of patient advocacy in educational program design and evaluation
- The role of GME programs related to patient advocacy; how we incorporate the role of advocacy into GME programs
- What is the role of a regulatory body in patient advocacy
- The role of change management professionals in patient advocacy
Advocacy in health system planning and redesign
- The role that health leaders play in advocating for patients (patients = communities)
- How do leaders serve as patient advocates
- Where does patient advocacy fit in when developing a provincial-wide strategy
- Keeping advocacy at the centre of innovation
If your topic does not fall into one of these categories but deals with patient advocacy from a leadership lens, please feel free to submit an abstract. All potential authors will be contacted through e-mail by the Managing Editor.
Healthcare Management Forum (HMF) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian College of Health Leaders. The journal publishes articles on leading practices related to health leadership and management, including recent research, new technology and professional practices from health leaders’ perspectives. It is circulated to a variety of environments, such as medical companies, health authorities, multi-level care facilities, hospitals, public and private health agencies, health charities, the Canadian military and all levels of the Canadian government. It is also available in universities and libraries throughout Canada, the United States and overseas. Authors’ guidelines can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/HMF