All submitted papers receive a serial code number from the Editorial Secretariat, based on their date of receipt, which is electronically communicated to the author responsible for the correspondence and used for any future communication, which, in any case, takes place exclusively via e-mail: healthreview@eemyy.gr.

Firstly, the editor-in-chief of the journal examines the submitted papers in terms of subject and the degree of compliance with the above instructions. In case that the subject of a paper is not consistent with the corresponding subject of the journal or in case that the authors have not faithfully followed the current guidelines, the editor-in-chief reserves the right to reject or return the paper to the corresponding author for amendments.

Papers that are in accordance with the journal guidelines are sent by the editor-in-chief to independent reviewers (usually two) in order to review, make amendments, and finally suggest their publication (with/or without amendments) or their rejection. If required, the opinion of a statistician is requested. The identity of the reviewers is in no case disclosed to the authors and likewise the identity of the authors is not disclosed to the reviewers (double blind peer review process).

The reviewers findings are received by the journal editor-inchief who makes the final decision on whether or not to publish a paper and forwards its decision along with the reviewers’ comments to the authors. The peer review process3 usually lasts 3-4 months. From the date of sending the results of the peer review to the authors, a period of one and a half month is given for the re-submission of the revised paper if amendments have been requested.