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The ''Journal of the American Medical Directors Association'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier twelve times a year as of January 2013 (9 times per year 2000-2012). It is the official journal of the American Medical Directors Association. The journal covers all aspects of long term care and geriatrics. JAMDA's readership includes internists, family/general practitioners, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, researchers and persons interested in caring for older persons. == Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * Excerpta Medica * MEDLINE/PubMed * EMBASE * Current Contents/Clinical Medicine * CINAHL * Science Citation Index Expanded The Journal has had an extraordinarily good past few years, it was placed as the most highly ranked of any of the clinical geriatric journals in 2012 with an impact factor of 5.302 and immediacy index of 1.343.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JAMDA Impact Factor )〕 The increase in the number of issues together with the online only publications has led to a major increase in the denominator for calculating the 2013 impact factor, which fell to 4.781〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JAMDA: The Future History of the Journal )〕 but still gave JAMDA the second highest impact factor of all the clinical geriatric journals. In 2013, JAMDA also had the highest immediacy index of 1.483〔 among all the clinical geriatric journals. History AMDA was established in 1978 by James Patee and herman Gruber near Hilton Head, Georgia. In 1988 it moved to Washington, DC. It has developed a Certified Medical Director program. It produces JAMDA (first known as the Annals of Long term Care, then renamed the Journal of the Americcan Medical Directors Association in 2000. The first Editor-in-Chief was Dan Osterweil, MD. The 2nd and current Editor-in-Chief is John E. Morley, MB, BCh, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. The Journal has an international editorial board. Editors-in-Chief * Dan Osterweil (2000-2006) * John E. Morley (2007–present) Article Types JAMDA publishes the following types of articles and editorial content: * Editorials * Special Articles * Updates from the AMDA Meeting * Review Articles * Original Study Articles * Clinical Experience * Brief Reports * Quality Improvement in Long Term Care * Long Term Care Around the Globe * Controversies in Long Term Care * Case Reports * In the Trenches * In Touch * Letter to the Editor * Book Reviews 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journal of the American Medical Directors Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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