Hospitals: A Journal Title with Many Meanings and One Vision

“Hospitals” as a name for a journal might appear simply as an umbrella term for healthcare-relevant research. It is certainly an inclusive and ambitious choice of title. We aspire for Hospitals to be a melting pot, and a home for all researchers interested in improving and innovating hospital policies, governance, and services, and empowering patients. From patient safety to hospital governance, fromsurgical simulation to employeemanagement, from autopsies to implementation of artificial intelligence, from hospital virtopsy to assessment of medical devices, and from medical malpractice to risk management, papers on biomedical, medico-legal, economic, and legal aspects of hospital functions will be warmly welcomed. We acknowledge that some may be skeptical of a journal with such a broad scope. We are confident that this effort will be of great value to many fields, and we will work diligently to make Hospitals a meaningful and sound reflection of current issues and innovations in hospital care and management