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HEC Forum

HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum: An Interprofessional Journal on Healthcare Institutions' Ethical and Legal Issues

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Overview

HEC Forum is an international, peer-reviewed publication featuring original contributions of interest to practicing physicians, nurses, social workers, risk managers, attorneys, ethicists, and other HEC committee members. Contributions from all pertinent sources are included, written in a style written appealing to HEC members and lay readers.

HEC Forum publishes essays and research papers, and includes such sections as Essays on Substantive Bioethical/Health Law Issues; Analyses of Procedural and Operational Committee Issues; Document Exchange; Special Articles; International Perspectives; Mt./St. Anonymous: Cases and Institutional Policies; Point/Counterpoint Argumentation; Case Reviews, Analyses, and Resolutions; Chairperson's Section; `Tough Spot'; Critical Annotations; Health Law Alert; Network News and Letters to the Editors.

HEC Forum is an official partner journal of the American Society for Humanities + Bioethics: http://www.asbh.org/

 

 

Editor in Chief
  • Mark J. Cherry PhD

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
1.6 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
1.6 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
11 days
Downloads
179.7k (2025)

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1572-8498
Print ISSN
0956-2737
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  8. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  9. Dimensions
  10. EBSCO
  11. EMCare
  12. ERIH PLUS
  13. Google Scholar
  14. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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  16. Naver
  17. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  18. Ovid Discovery
  19. PhilPapers
  20. Philosopher’s Index
  21. Portico
  22. ProQuest
  23. SCImago
  24. SCOPUS
  25. Social Science Citation Index
  26. TD Net Discovery Service
  27. Wanfang
  28. eLibrary.ru
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