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NEJM Article Formats for Health Policy

Special Articles

Readmission, Observation, and the hospital readmission reduction program (Zuckerman et al)

Health Policy Reports

Future of long-term care and the expanding role of Medicaid managed care (Iglehart)

Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights

The elusive right to health care under U.S. law (Ruger et al)

Perspective

When new Medicare payment systems collide (Mechanic)

Research Letters

State Medicaid expansion and change in hospital volume according to payer (Hempstead et al)

Priorities for NEJM

• Relevance to health care delivery, clinical

practice, or current health policy discussions

• Topics of interest to our general audience (mostly

physicians)

• Data robustly support conclusions; highly likely to

be correct

• Accessibility to our readers (explain relevance to

readers not in field; avoid jargon)

• Articles that look like articles with publish…

NEJM Catalyst

• New online

publication, plus quarterly events

– Launched Dec 2015 – Catalyst.NEJM.org

• Audiences: health

care executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians

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NEJM Catalyst Submissions

• See Submissions page

for editorial format and process

– Catalyst.NEJM.org/about /submissions/

• Or contact Editorial

Director Ed Prewitt, eprewitt@nejm.org

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