Postgraduate Medical Journal

Article	Citations
COVID-19: Current understanding of its Pathophysiology, Clinical presentation and Treatment	408
Short term, high-dose vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19 disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled, study (SHADE study)	182
SARS-CoV-2 and the pandemic of COVID-19	164
Vitamin D status and outcomes for hospitalised older patients with COVID-19	152
Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) attitudes and related factors towards COVID-19 vaccination: a rapid systematic review	138
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	134
Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic	130
Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19	129
ACE2 and COVID-19 and the resulting ARDS	89
Elevated N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide is associated with increased mortality in patients with COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis	80
COVID-19 in South Korea	80
Using Twitter for sentiment analysis towards AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines	74
COVID-19 outbreak and its monetary implications for dental practices, hospitals and healthcare workers	72
Prognostic value of elevated lactate dehydrogenase in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	69
Preparing medical students for a pandemic: a systematic review of student disaster training programmes	51
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	50
Impact of exposure to patients with COVID-19 on residents and fellows: an international survey of 1420 trainees	48
Managing drug-induced QT prolongation in clinical practice	47
Continuing medical education during a pandemic: an academic institution’s experience	45
COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care	43
Anticoagulation in COVID-19: current concepts and controversies	42
Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic	40
COVID-19: a comparison to the 1918 influenza and how we can defeat it	40
COVID-19: to be or not to be; that is the diagnostic question	39
Three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	37

COVID-19 associated variations in liver function parameters: a retrospective study	37
Will vaccination refusal prolong the war on SARS-CoV-2?	36
Association between IL-6 and severe disease and mortality in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postgraduate trainees: a cross-sectional survey	33
Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from UK trainees	32
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	32
Is HbA1c an ideal biomarker of well-controlled diabetes?	31
Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine	31
Statin use and clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): presentation, diagnosis and treatment	29
COVID-19 and functional disability: current insights and rehabilitation strategies	29
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on healthcare workers: beyond the risk of exposure	27
Current situation with doctors and healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in India	27
Drug repurposing for COVID-19: a potential threat of self-medication and controlling measures	27
COVID-19 in patients with heart failure: the new and the old epidemic	26
Hypertension as an independent risk factor for severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study	26
Gender bias in reference letters for residency and academic medicine: a systematic review	25
Investigation of adverse reactions in healthcare personnel working in Level 3 barrier protection PPE to treat COVID-19	24
COVID-19 changes medical education in Italy: will other countries follow?	24
COVID-19 impact on junior doctor education and training: a scoping review	23
Impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on the physical and mental well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19	23
COVID-19 pandemic in India: challenges and silver linings	23
Influence of the Peltzman effect on the recurrent COVID-19 waves in Europe	22
COVID-19 and remote consulting strategies in managing trauma and orthopaedics	22
Endocrine changes in SARS-CoV-2 patients and lessons from SARS-CoV	21
ABO blood groups and severe outcomes in COVID-19: A meta-analysis	21
Cash, currency and COVID-19	21
Implementing a telemedicine curriculum for internal medicine residents during a pandemic: the Cleveland Clinic experience	21
Racial and gender disparities in neurology	20
Cross-sectional study on the role of public awareness in preventing the spread of COVID-19 outbreak in India	20
Efficacy of dietary supplements on improving sleep quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Planning virtual residency interviews as a result of COVID-19: insight from residency applicants and physicians conducting interviews	19
Symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections	19
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	18
‘Learning from home’: role of e-learning methodologies and tools during novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak	18
Status and situation of postgraduate medical students in China under the influence of COVID-19	18
Burnout in the age of COVID-19	18
Russia-Ukraine conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Ukraine's healthcare system and a concern for global citizens	18
Review on therapeutic targets for COVID-19: insights from cytokine storm	18
Application of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to improve medication safety: a systematic review	18
BAME community hesitancy in the UK for COVID-19 vaccine: suggested solutions	17
Mix and match COVID-19 vaccines: potential benefit and perspective from India	17
COVID-19 and the plight of migrants in India	17
Effects of waist to height ratio, waist circumference, body mass index on the risk of chronic diseases, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality	17
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	17
COVID-19 detection by dogs: from physiology to field application—a review article	17
Analysis of lawsuits related to diagnostic errors from point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care in the USA	16
Emerging spectrum of post-COVID-19 syndrome	16
Early-onset dementia: key issues using a relationship-centred care approach	15
Bradycardia during remdesivir treatment might be associated with improved survival in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study on 473 patients from a tertiary centre	15

Myositis due to COVID-19	14
Patients gather in large hospitals: the current situation of Chinese hospitals and the direction of medical reform	14
Recent advances in the aetiology of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS)	14
COVID-19 pandemic: stringent measures of Malaysia and implications for other countries	14
Performance at medical school selection correlates with success in Part A of the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination	13
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (MIS-V), to interpret with caution	13
Guidance for providing effective feedback in clinical supervision in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review	13
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	12
Do we need the word ‘woman’ in healthcare?	12
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–18	12
Characteristics and predictors of burnout among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in two tertiary hospitals	12
Gender medicine: its historical roots	12
Inadvertent subcutaneous injection of COVID-19 vaccine	12
Service reconfiguration in the department of hand surgery during the UK COVID-19 lockdown: Birmingham experience	12
COVID-19 pandemic and the reduction in ST-elevation myocardial infarction admissions	12
Point-of-care ultrasound augments physical examination learning by undergraduate medical students	11
Association between response rates and monetary incentives in sample study: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	11
Efficacy and safety of low dose ticagrelor in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Advances in the management of diabetes: therapies for type 2 diabetes	11
China will fully implement the standardised training system for residents in 2020	11
Effect of cigarette smoking on smoking biomarkers, blood pressure and blood lipid levels among Sri Lankan male smokers	11
Efficacy and safety of iron therapy in patients with chronic heart failure and iron deficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on 15 randomised controlled trials	11
Retrieving the deleterious mutations before extinction: genome-wide comparison of shared derived mutations in liver cancer and normal population	11
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	11
Urinary calcium indices in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH): which test performs best?	11
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: time to close the chapter	11
Surgical training fit for the future: the need for a change	11
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	11
Is the English language a barrier to the non-English-speaking authors in academic publishing?	11
Telemedicine: a new normal in COVID era; perspective from a developing nation	10
Effect of serial awake prone positioning on oxygenation in patients admitted to intensive care with COVID-19	10
Necessity is the mother of invention: how the COVID-19 pandemic could change medical student placements for the better	10
Personalised yoga for burnout and traumatic stress in junior doctors	10
E-learning of medical residents during COVID-19: perspective from a developing nation	10
The role of dry mouth in screening sleep apnea	10
Gut microbiota and obesity: an overview of microbiota to microbial-based therapies	10
Purpura fulminans as the presenting manifestation of COVID-19	10
Complex regional pain syndrome: an evolving perspective	9
Adult outcomes after preterm birth	9
Sofosbuvir with daclatasvir and the outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis with GRADE assessment	9
Vitamin D levels and mortality with SARS-COV-2 infection: a retrospective two-centre cohort study	9
Improving postoperative mobilisation rates in patients undergoing elective major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery	9
Egalitarianism in surgical training: let equity prevail	9
Clinical and health policy challenges in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with fusion for treatment of multilevel cervical compressive myelopathy: an updated meta-analysis	9
Schwartz rounds for healthcare personnel in coping with COVID-19 pandemic	9
Sharing is caring: an analysis of #FOAMed Twitter posts during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Development of anti-NXP2 dermatomyositis following Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccination	9
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	9
Is COVID-19 more severe in older men?	8
Leadership gender disparity in the fifty highest ranking North American universities: Thematic analysis under a theoretical lens	8
Medical students and COVID-19: lessons learnt from the 2020 pandemic	8
‘Triple therapy’ (elexacaftor, tezacaftor, ivacaftor) skin rash in patients with cystic fibrosis	8
Antithrombotic therapy and the risk of new-onset dementia in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation	8
Effects of the Mediterranean diet adherence on body composition, blood parameters and quality of life in adults	8
Acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura post first dose of COVID-19 vaccination	8
Inadvertent injection of COVID-19 vaccine into deltoid muscle vasculature may result in vaccine distribution to distance tissues and consequent adverse reactions	8
Antibiotic prescriptions by medical interns in Hong Kong: influence of the hospital settings and prescription culture	8
Differential attainment in the MRCPsych according to ethnicity and place of qualification between 2013 and 2018: a UK cohort study	8
Horizontal and vertical tracing: a cognitive forcing strategy to improve diagnostic accuracy	8
Why face-to-face medical education will prevail despite the world's swift acclimatisation to virtual learning	8
Ramsay Hunt syndrome following COVID-19 vaccination	8
ChatGPT: the threats to medical education	8
Point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 pandemic	8
Bilateral paracentral acute middle maculopathy in a SARS-CoV-2-positive patient	8
Managing hand and reconstructive microsurgery service during COVID-19 pandemic: Singapore experience	8
Prevalence of depression and its associated factors among clinical-year medical students in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia	8
Advances in the management of diabetes: new devices for type 1 diabetes	8
Gender and racial trends among neurology residents: an overview	8
Reviewing the use and quality of machine learning in developing clinical prediction models for cardiovascular disease	8
Parosmia post COVID-19: an unpleasant manifestation of long COVID syndrome	7
Efficacy of ultrasound guidance for lumbar punctures: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	7
Atypical neurological manifestations of dengue fever: a case series and mini review	7
Violence against doctors: an emerging epidemic amidst COVID-19 pandemic in India	7
Guidelines for mono, double and triple antithrombotic therapy	7
COVID-19 and medical professionalism in a pandemic	7
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	7
Non-diabetic ketoacidosis: a case series and literature review	7

Remote consultations in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: student perspectives	7
Team strategic philosophy: requiem for the infinite game	7
Experience of video consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic in elderly population for Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders	7
Preoperative cardiac risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients without heart failure undergoing hip fracture surgery: a single-centre study	7
Grit: what is it and why does it matter in medicine?	7
Terbinafine-induced Steven-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) overlap	7
Immediate consequences and solutions used to maintain medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic for residents and medical students: a restricted review	7
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	6
Cultivation of compound ability of postgraduates with medical professional degree: the importance of double tutor system	6
Impact of lockdown on medical emergency visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	6
Impact of cancelling foundation year rotations due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK	6
Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics: can Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) pass Section 1 of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Trauma & Orthopaedics) examination	6
Clinician and patient experience of neurology telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Clinical Orthopaedic Teaching programme for Students (COTS)	6
Snake envenomation-induced acute kidney injury: prognosis and long-term renal outcomes	6
Diagnostic performance of morning serum cortisol as an alternative to short synacthen test for the assessment of adrenal reserve; a retrospective study	6
Hospital-acquired serum phosphate derangements and their associated in-hospital mortality	6
Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department	6
Serum pepsinogen levels and OLGA/OLGIM staging in the assessment of atrophic gastritis types	6
rs10865710 polymorphism inPPARGpromoter is associated with the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in a Chinese population	5
Otolaryngology manifestations of COVID-19: a contemporary viewpoint	5
The challenge of environmental sustainability in radiology training and potential solutions	5
Zinc supplementation ameliorates type 2 diabetes markers through the enhancement of total antioxidant capacity in overweight patients	5
Decreased eosinophil counts and elevated lactate dehydrogenase predict severe COVID-19 in patients with underlying chronic airway diseases	5
Necrolytic migratory erythema: an important sign of glucagonoma	5
Residency interviews in the digital era	5
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	5
High-stakes examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: to proceed or not to proceed, that is the question	5
Scoping review of COVID-19-related systematic reviews and meta-analyses: can we really have confidence in their results?	5
Sulfasalazine induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with prior cholecystectomy	5
Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a primary skin manifestation of COVID-19	5
Interventions that improve adherence to antihypertensive medications in coronary heart disease patients: a systematic review	5
Diuretic-induced hypokalaemia: an updated review	5
Description of multimorbidity clusters of admitted patients in medical departments of a general hospital	5
Competency-based novel medical curriculum in India	5
‘Masking’ emotions: doctor–patient communication in the era of COVID-19	5
Depression, quality of life and coping style among Thai doctors before their first year of residency training	5
Knowledge towards COVID-19 among healthcare students in the central region of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study	5
Diagnosing, fast and slow	5
Medical education-collateral damage of COVID-19?	5
Association between pulse pressure and ischaemic stroke in elderly patients with hypertension	5
Validation of phlebotomy performance metrics developed as part of a proficiency-based progression initiative to mitigate wrong blood in tube	5
Systematic review of interventions to improve gender equity in graduate medicine	5
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics surgery: transforming technological innovation in patient care and surgical training	5
Knowledge and practice of home blood pressure monitoring 6 months after the risk and assessment management programme: does health literacy matter?	5
Experiences, patient interactions and knowledge regarding the use of cannabis as a medicine in a cohort of New Zealand doctors in an oncology setting	5
Does robotic-assisted surgery improve outcomes of total hip arthroplasty compared to manual technique? A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Using the cognitive apprenticeship model to identify learning strategies that learners view as effective in ward rounds	5
COVID-19 and the burning issue of drug interaction: never forget the ECG	5
Simple, fast and affordable triaging pathway for COVID-19	4
From the lens of the clinical residents: undergraduate to postgraduate medical education and the transition process	4
Medical doctors in India are on strike: a moral and national conundrum	4
Radiological approach to cavitary lung lesions	4
Clinical Audit Platform for Students (CAPS): a pilot study	4
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	4
Developing useful early warning and prognostic scores for COVID-19	4
Examining medical student volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic as a prosocial behaviour during an emergency	4
In situ simulation training for a better interprofessional team performance in transferring critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective randomised control trial	4
Educational opportunities for postgraduate medical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: deriving value from old, new and emerging ways of learning	4
Is taking a history outmoded? Why doctors should listen to stories instead	4
Paraneoplastic encephalitis: clinically based approach on diagnosis and management	4
COVID-19-associated new-onset hyperglycaemia: a reversible entity or persistent risk?	4
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	4
Lenalidomide-induced focal myocarditis mimicking acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction	4
Role of multimodality imaging in a case of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	4
Heterogeneity of clinical and radiological findings of COVID-19	4
Why paleomedicine is useful for medical education	4
Pholcodine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in a patient with COVID-19	4
COVID-19, bubonic and meningitis in Democratic Republic of Congo: the confluence of three plagues at a challenging time	4
Surgical factors associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation after lung resection: the EPAFT multicentre study	4
NeuroVerse: neurosurgery in the era of Metaverse and other technological breakthroughs	4
What is in the toolkit (and what are the tools)? How to approach the study of doctor–patient communication	4
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO): a new attractive target to decrease cardiovascular risk	4
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the young population; a 6-year review of the Irish out-of-hospital cardiac arrest register	4
Diagnostic and prognostic values of circular RNAs for lung cancer: a meta-analysis	4
What matters to people with multiple long-term conditions and their carers?	4
Association of mean arterial pressure with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in young adults	4
Evaluation of a survey for acute care programme directors on the utilisation of point-of-care ultrasound	4
2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Factors associated with symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis in severe white matter lesions: a retrospective analysis	4
Human cytomegalovirus infection is associated with stroke in women: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004	4
Simple budget-neutral tool to improve intraoperative communication	4
Applied genomics for identification of virulent biothreats and for disease outbreak surveillance	4
Alerting on mortality among patients discharged from the emergency department: a machine learning model	4
Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and pharmaceutical prescribing in primary care in England	4
Concise genetic profile of lung carcinoma	4
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	4
Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides	4
Recalibrating our efforts: from globalisation to glocalisation of medical education	4
SARS-CoV-2 serological assay and viral testing: a report of professional football setting	4
Increased serum nesfatin-1 levels in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases	3
Discrete choice experiment on educating value-based healthcare	3
How to best handle vaccine decliners: scientific facts and psychological approach	3
Will webinars prove to be an effective teaching medium post-pandemic?	3