Postgraduate Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Short term, high-dose vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19 disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled, study (SHADE study)	191
Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic	157
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	152
Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) attitudes and related factors towards COVID-19 vaccination: a rapid systematic review	149
Using Twitter for sentiment analysis towards AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines	80
Prognostic value of elevated lactate dehydrogenase in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	74
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	52
COVID-19: a comparison to the 1918 influenza and how we can defeat it	48
Anticoagulation in COVID-19: current concepts and controversies	44
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–18	39
COVID-19 associated variations in liver function parameters: a retrospective study	39
Association between IL-6 and severe disease and mortality in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Gender bias in reference letters for residency and academic medicine: a systematic review	35
Symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections	33
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	30
Statin use and clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on the physical and mental well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19	30
Efficacy of dietary supplements on improving sleep quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Russia-Ukraine conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Ukraine's healthcare system and a concern for global citizens	28
Hypertension as an independent risk factor for severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study	28
COVID-19 impact on junior doctor education and training: a scoping review	25
Influence of the Peltzman effect on the recurrent COVID-19 waves in Europe	25
Implementing a telemedicine curriculum for internal medicine residents during a pandemic: the Cleveland Clinic experience	24
Racial and gender disparities in neurology	24
ABO blood groups and severe outcomes in COVID-19: A meta-analysis	23

Guidance for providing effective feedback in clinical supervision in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review	21
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	21
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	21
Emerging spectrum of post-COVID-19 syndrome	20
Planning virtual residency interviews as a result of COVID-19: insight from residency applicants and physicians conducting interviews	20
‘Learning from home’: role of e-learning methodologies and tools during novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak	19
Mix and match COVID-19 vaccines: potential benefit and perspective from India	19
COVID-19 detection by dogs: from physiology to field application—a review article	18
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	18
Do we need the word ‘woman’ in healthcare?	17
Recent advances in the aetiology of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS)	17
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	16
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	16
Effect of cigarette smoking on smoking biomarkers, blood pressure and blood lipid levels among Sri Lankan male smokers	15
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	15
Gut microbiota and obesity: an overview of microbiota to microbial-based therapies	15
BAME community hesitancy in the UK for COVID-19 vaccine: suggested solutions	15
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics surgery: transforming technological innovation in patient care and surgical training	14
Patients gather in large hospitals: the current situation of Chinese hospitals and the direction of medical reform	14
Effect of serial awake prone positioning on oxygenation in patients admitted to intensive care with COVID-19	14
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Performance at medical school selection correlates with success in Part A of the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination	14
Myositis due to COVID-19	14
Is the English language a barrier to the non-English-speaking authors in academic publishing?	13
Development of anti-NXP2 dermatomyositis following Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccination	13
Service reconfiguration in the department of hand surgery during the UK COVID-19 lockdown: Birmingham experience	13
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (MIS-V), to interpret with caution	13
Surgical training fit for the future: the need for a change	13
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	13
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	13
Inadvertent subcutaneous injection of COVID-19 vaccine	12
Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	12
Sharing is caring: an analysis of #FOAMed Twitter posts during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Antithrombotic therapy and the risk of new-onset dementia in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation	12
Why face-to-face medical education will prevail despite the world's swift acclimatisation to virtual learning	12
Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with fusion for treatment of multilevel cervical compressive myelopathy: an updated meta-analysis	12
Grit: what is it and why does it matter in medicine?	11
Ramsay Hunt syndrome following COVID-19 vaccination	11
Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides	11
Improving postoperative mobilisation rates in patients undergoing elective major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery	11
Purpura fulminans as the presenting manifestation of COVID-19	11
Retrieving the deleterious mutations before extinction: genome-wide comparison of shared derived mutations in liver cancer and normal population	11
Complex regional pain syndrome: an evolving perspective	11
Effects of the Mediterranean diet adherence on body composition, blood parameters and quality of life in adults	11
ChatGPT: the threats to medical education	11
Non-diabetic ketoacidosis: a case series and literature review	10
Computer image analysis with artificial intelligence: a practical introduction to convolutional neural networks for medical professionals	10
ChatGPT in research and health professions education: challenges, opportunities, and future directions	10
Necessity is the mother of invention: how the COVID-19 pandemic could change medical student placements for the better	10
Leadership gender disparity in the fifty highest ranking North American universities: Thematic analysis under a theoretical lens	10

Sofosbuvir with daclatasvir and the outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis with GRADE assessment	10
Inadvertent injection of COVID-19 vaccine into deltoid muscle vasculature may result in vaccine distribution to distance tissues and consequent adverse reactions	9
Does robotic-assisted surgery improve outcomes of total hip arthroplasty compared to manual technique? A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Vitamin D levels and mortality with SARS-COV-2 infection: a retrospective two-centre cohort study	9
Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO): a new attractive target to decrease cardiovascular risk	9
Systematic review of interventions to improve gender equity in graduate medicine	9
Circulating sex hormone-binding globulin levels and ischemic stroke risk: a Mendelian randomization study	9
Reviewing the use and quality of machine learning in developing clinical prediction models for cardiovascular disease	9
Diuretic-induced hypokalaemia: an updated review	8
Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and pharmaceutical prescribing in primary care in England	8
Guidelines for mono, double and triple antithrombotic therapy	8
Serum pepsinogen levels and OLGA/OLGIM staging in the assessment of atrophic gastritis types	8
Cultivation of compound ability of postgraduates with medical professional degree: the importance of double tutor system	8
‘Triple therapy’ (elexacaftor, tezacaftor, ivacaftor) skin rash in patients with cystic fibrosis	8
Gender and racial trends among neurology residents: an overview	8
Bilateral paracentral acute middle maculopathy in a SARS-CoV-2-positive patient	8
Acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura post first dose of COVID-19 vaccination	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
Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department	7
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	7
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	7
Immediate consequences and solutions used to maintain medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic for residents and medical students: a restricted review	7
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	7
High-stakes examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: to proceed or not to proceed, that is the question	7
Clinical Orthopaedic Teaching programme for Students (COTS)	7
Residency interviews in the digital era	6
NeuroVerse: neurosurgery in the era of Metaverse and other technological breakthroughs	6
ChatGPT prompts for generating multiple-choice questions in medical education and evidence on their validity: a literature review	6
Interventions that improve adherence to antihypertensive medications in coronary heart disease patients: a systematic review	6
Cosmetic surgeries and procedures among youth in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study of undergraduate university students in the Eastern Province	6
Impact of lockdown on medical emergency visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	6
Examining medical student volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic as a prosocial behaviour during an emergency	6
Medical activism	6
Description of multimorbidity clusters of admitted patients in medical departments of a general hospital	6
Surgical factors associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation after lung resection: the EPAFT multicentre study	6
Experiences, patient interactions and knowledge regarding the use of cannabis as a medicine in a cohort of New Zealand doctors in an oncology setting	6
Clinician and patient experience of neurology telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
rs10865710 polymorphism inPPARGpromoter is associated with the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in a Chinese population	6
Snake envenomation-induced acute kidney injury: prognosis and long-term renal outcomes	6
Competency-based novel medical curriculum in India	6
Effects of a Pilates programme in spinal curvatures and hamstring extensibility in adolescents with thoracic hyperkyphosis: a randomised controlled trial	5
Zinc supplementation ameliorates type 2 diabetes markers through the enhancement of total antioxidant capacity in overweight patients	5
Factors associated with symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis in severe white matter lesions: a retrospective analysis	5
COVID-19, bubonic and meningitis in Democratic Republic of Congo: the confluence of three plagues at a challenging time	5
Medical informed choice: understanding the element of time to meet the standard of care for valid informed consent	5
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	5
Malnutrition and sarcopenia worsen short- and long-term outcomes in internal medicine inpatients	5
Relationship between red blood cell–related indices and coronary artery calcification	5
Scoping review of COVID-19-related systematic reviews and meta-analyses: can we really have confidence in their results?	5
Otolaryngology manifestations of COVID-19: a contemporary viewpoint	5
Decreased eosinophil counts and elevated lactate dehydrogenase predict severe COVID-19 in patients with underlying chronic airway diseases	5
Thiamine deficiency: a commonly unrecognised but easily treatable condition	5
Knowledge and practice of home blood pressure monitoring 6 months after the risk and assessment management programme: does health literacy matter?	5
Educational opportunities for postgraduate medical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: deriving value from old, new and emerging ways of learning	5
Performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) in Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP)-style examination questions	5
Uric acid and diabetes mellitus: an update	5
Increased serum nesfatin-1 levels in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases	5
Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a primary skin manifestation of COVID-19	5
Hypertension and psychosis	5
Limitations of large language models in medical applications	5
Applied genomics for identification of virulent biothreats and for disease outbreak surveillance	5
In situ simulation training for a better interprofessional team performance in transferring critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective randomised control trial	5
Differential attainment in higher surgical training: scoping pan-specialty spectra	5
Paraneoplastic encephalitis: clinically based approach on diagnosis and management	5
What matters to people with multiple long-term conditions and their carers?	5
Evaluation of a survey for acute care programme directors on the utilisation of point-of-care ultrasound	5
2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Real-world observational study of assessment of CHA2DS2-VASc, C2HEST and HAVOC scores for atrial fibrillation among patients with rheumatological disorders: a nationwide analysis	4
Lipoprotein(a) and functional outcome of acute ischemic stroke when discordant with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol	4
How patient autonomy drives the legal liabilities of medical practitioners and the practical ways to mitigate and resolve them	4
Developing useful early warning and prognostic scores for COVID-19	4
Thirty-day unplanned readmission in hospitalised asthma patients in the USA	4
Escalating competition in NHS: implications for healthcare quality and workforce sustainability	4
SARS-CoV-2 serological assay and viral testing: a report of professional football setting	4
Can fibromyalgia be considered a characteristic symptom of climacterium?	4
What is in the toolkit (and what are the tools)? How to approach the study of doctor–patient communication	4
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	4
COVID-19-associated new-onset hyperglycaemia: a reversible entity or persistent risk?	4

Lenalidomide-induced focal myocarditis mimicking acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction	4
Google Trends as a predictive tool in the era of COVID-19: a scoping review	4
Deconstructing language barriers in healthcare: where are we going wrong?	4
COVID-19 vaccination: patient uptake and attitudes in a multi-ethnic North London maternity unit	4
Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and silent brain infarction	4
Health outcomes of age at menarche in European women: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	4
Pholcodine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in a patient with COVID-19	4
The association between mortality and door-to-antibiotic time: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Delayed olanzapine induced myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis	4
Role of multimodality imaging in a case of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	4
Concise genetic profile of lung carcinoma	4
Relative Fat Mass Index can be solution for obesity paradox in coronary artery disease severity prediction calculated by SYNTAX Score	4
Recalibrating our efforts: from globalisation to glocalisation of medical education	4
Is taking a history outmoded? Why doctors should listen to stories instead	4
What are the non-technical skills required by junior doctors in the NHS to manage medical emergencies? A scoping review	4
Human cytomegalovirus infection is associated with stroke in women: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004	4
Clinical and prognostic significance of elevated ferritin levels in hospitalised adults	4
Research on predicting hematoma expansion in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage based on deep features of the VGG-19 network	4
Alerting on mortality among patients discharged from the emergency department: a machine learning model	4
Influence of medical trainee sleep pattern (chronotype) on burn-out and satisfaction with work schedules: a multicentre observational study	4
High level of lactate dehydrogenase and ischaemia–reperfusion injury regulate the multiple organ dysfunction in patients with COVID-19	4
British doctors’ work–life balance and home-life satisfaction: a cross-sectional study	4
Medical management for the prevention of kidney stones	4
Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus significantly impacts on quality of life of patients on haemodialysis and associates with increased levels of serum calcium and phosphorus	4
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	4
National evaluation of trauma teaching for students (NETTS)	4
Low level of complement factor H increases the risk of cancer-related death in patients with small-cell lung cancer	4
Teaching and facilitating groups online: adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Natural history of pituitary apoplexy: a long-term follow-up study	4
Impact of the recent changes of the Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA) weightage in specialty training recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Memantine induced encephalopathy in chronic kidney disease: a case report	3
Warfarin induced skin necrosis	3
Predictors of self-reported research engagement and academic-career interest amongst medical students in the United Kingdom: a national cross-sectional survey	3
Developing a blended learning postgraduate teaching programme in anaesthesia: pandemic and beyond	3
High retraction rate of Chinese articles: it is time to do something about academic misconduct	3
Diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in adulthood and eligibility for novel CFTR modulator therapy	3
Effects of angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor on renal function in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
How to best handle vaccine decliners: scientific facts and psychological approach	3
Clinicopathological and prognostic values of PD-L1 expression in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis of 31 studies with 5368 patients	3
Clofazimine: another potential magic bullet for the treatment of COVID-19?	3
Development process and clinical application of collagenase chemonucleolysis in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation: a narrative review in China	3
Appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography in the investigation of general medicine patients presenting with syncope or presyncope	3
Combined lifestyle factors are associated with the risk of ischaemic stroke in a Chinese population	3
Enhanced recovery after surgery in patients after hip and knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Migration intent among Jordanian medical students: a nationwide cross-sectional investigation	3
Surgical training in the UK: is cost a barrier to entry?	3
Comparisons of HATCH, HAVOC and CHA2DS2-VASc scores for all-cause mortality prediction in atrial fibrillation: a real-world evidence study	3
Portfolio use in postgraduate medical education: a systematic scoping review	3
Epidemiological study of calcified aortic valve stenosis in a Chinese community population	3
Acute localised exanthematous pustulosis (ALEP) over penis secondary to lamotrigine	3
Will webinars prove to be an effective teaching medium post-pandemic?	3
Online education for safer opioid prescribing in hospitals—lessons learnt from the Opioid Use Change (OUCh) project	3
Residency match interview scheduling: quantifying the applicant experience	3
Explainable artificial intelligence model for mortality risk prediction in the intensive care unit: a derivation and validation study	3
Implementing a unique immersive near-peer-led clinical skills educational bootcamp for early-year clinical medical students	3
Opioid prescribing attitudes of palliative care physicians versus other specialists: a questionnaire-based survey	3
Postpartum haemorrhage and associated factors among mothers who gave birth in South Gondar Zone public health facilities, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	3
Poliovirus returns to the UK after nearly 40 years: current efforts and future recommendations	3
Developing the ‘checking’ discipline	3
Medical doctors in India are on strike: a moral and national conundrum	3
Resurgence of COVID-19 in India: time for introspection	3
Motivations of medical students and doctors leaving the NHS explored in a residency training application webinar series	3
The gender of radiation oncologists treating breast and genitourinary cancers at US comprehensive cancer centers	3
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: an overview	3
Standardised training system for specialists in China: a new opportunity and challenge for doctors	3
Instagram as a vehicle to promote disease awareness and medical education in #retinaldystrophies	3
Management of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies: narrative review	3
Evaluating the risk of sepsis attributing to obesity: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	3
Gestational gigantomastia with massively haemorrhagic ulcers	3
Audit of oxygen administration to achieve a target oxygen saturation range in acutely unwell medical patients	3
Maintaining surgical training during COVID-19 and redeployment: experiences from a group of core surgical trainees	3