Postgraduate Medical Journal

Article	Citations
COVID-19: Current understanding of its Pathophysiology, Clinical presentation and Treatment	430
Short term, high-dose vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19 disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled, study (SHADE study)	188
SARS-CoV-2 and the pandemic of COVID-19	175
Vitamin D status and outcomes for hospitalised older patients with COVID-19	151
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	146
Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) attitudes and related factors towards COVID-19 vaccination: a rapid systematic review	145
Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic	143
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	73
Managing drug-induced QT prolongation in clinical practice	53
Impact of exposure to patients with COVID-19 on residents and fellows: an international survey of 1420 trainees	52
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	51
Anticoagulation in COVID-19: current concepts and controversies	44
COVID-19: a comparison to the 1918 influenza and how we can defeat it	44
Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic	41
COVID-19 associated variations in liver function parameters: a retrospective study	38
Three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Association between IL-6 and severe disease and mortality in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Will vaccination refusal prolong the war on SARS-CoV-2?	36
Is HbA1c an ideal biomarker of well-controlled diabetes?	35
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postgraduate trainees: a cross-sectional survey	32
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	32
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
Gender bias in reference letters for residency and academic medicine: a systematic review	30
COVID-19 in patients with heart failure: the new and the old epidemic	29

Statin use and clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Drug repurposing for COVID-19: a potential threat of self-medication and controlling measures	28
COVID-19 and functional disability: current insights and rehabilitation strategies	28
Symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections	28
Current situation with doctors and healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in India	27
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–18	27
Impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on the physical and mental well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19	27
Hypertension as an independent risk factor for severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study	27
Russia-Ukraine conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Ukraine's healthcare system and a concern for global citizens	25
Influence of the Peltzman effect on the recurrent COVID-19 waves in Europe	24
COVID-19 impact on junior doctor education and training: a scoping review	23
Efficacy of dietary supplements on improving sleep quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Implementing a telemedicine curriculum for internal medicine residents during a pandemic: the Cleveland Clinic experience	22
ABO blood groups and severe outcomes in COVID-19: A meta-analysis	22
Cross-sectional study on the role of public awareness in preventing the spread of COVID-19 outbreak in India	21
Racial and gender disparities in neurology	21
Application of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to improve medication safety: a systematic review	20
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	19
‘Learning from home’: role of e-learning methodologies and tools during novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak	19
Review on therapeutic targets for COVID-19: insights from cytokine storm	19
Planning virtual residency interviews as a result of COVID-19: insight from residency applicants and physicians conducting interviews	19
COVID-19 and the plight of migrants in India	19
COVID-19 detection by dogs: from physiology to field application—a review article	18
Mix and match COVID-19 vaccines: potential benefit and perspective from India	18
Guidance for providing effective feedback in clinical supervision in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review	17
Characteristics and predictors of burnout among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in two tertiary hospitals	17
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	17
Early-onset dementia: key issues using a relationship-centred care approach	17
Emerging spectrum of post-COVID-19 syndrome	17
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	17
Do we need the word ‘woman’ in healthcare?	16
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	16
BAME community hesitancy in the UK for COVID-19 vaccine: suggested solutions	16
Effect of cigarette smoking on smoking biomarkers, blood pressure and blood lipid levels among Sri Lankan male smokers	15
Patients gather in large hospitals: the current situation of Chinese hospitals and the direction of medical reform	15
Myositis due to COVID-19	14
Gut microbiota and obesity: an overview of microbiota to microbial-based therapies	14
Recent advances in the aetiology of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS)	14
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
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	13
Effect of serial awake prone positioning on oxygenation in patients admitted to intensive care with COVID-19	13
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Performance at medical school selection correlates with success in Part A of the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination	13
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	13
Urinary calcium indices in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH): which test performs best?	12
Sharing is caring: an analysis of #FOAMed Twitter posts during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
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	12
Point-of-care ultrasound augments physical examination learning by undergraduate medical students	12
Why face-to-face medical education will prevail despite the world's swift acclimatisation to virtual learning	12

Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	12
The role of dry mouth in screening sleep apnea	12
China will fully implement the standardised training system for residents in 2020	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
Retrieving the deleterious mutations before extinction: genome-wide comparison of shared derived mutations in liver cancer and normal population	11
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	11
Association between response rates and monetary incentives in sample study: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Antithrombotic therapy and the risk of new-onset dementia in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation	11
Is the English language a barrier to the non-English-speaking authors in academic publishing?	11
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: time to close the chapter	11
Ramsay Hunt syndrome following COVID-19 vaccination	11
Development of anti-NXP2 dermatomyositis following Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccination	11
Improving postoperative mobilisation rates in patients undergoing elective major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery	10
E-learning of medical residents during COVID-19: perspective from a developing nation	10
Necessity is the mother of invention: how the COVID-19 pandemic could change medical student placements for the better	10
Effects of the Mediterranean diet adherence on body composition, blood parameters and quality of life in adults	10
Telemedicine: a new normal in COVID era; perspective from a developing nation	10
Grit: what is it and why does it matter in medicine?	10
Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with fusion for treatment of multilevel cervical compressive myelopathy: an updated meta-analysis	10
Diagnostic performance of morning serum cortisol as an alternative to short synacthen test for the assessment of adrenal reserve; a retrospective study	10
Purpura fulminans as the presenting manifestation of COVID-19	10
Sofosbuvir with daclatasvir and the outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis with GRADE assessment	10
Advances in the management of diabetes: new devices for type 1 diabetes	9
Antibiotic prescriptions by medical interns in Hong Kong: influence of the hospital settings and prescription culture	9
Leadership gender disparity in the fifty highest ranking North American universities: Thematic analysis under a theoretical lens	9
Reviewing the use and quality of machine learning in developing clinical prediction models for cardiovascular disease	9
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	9
Non-diabetic ketoacidosis: a case series and literature review	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
Complex regional pain syndrome: an evolving perspective	9
Adult outcomes after preterm birth	9
Inadvertent injection of COVID-19 vaccine into deltoid muscle vasculature may result in vaccine distribution to distance tissues and consequent adverse reactions	8
Atypical neurological manifestations of dengue fever: a case series and mini review	8
Medical students and COVID-19: lessons learnt from the 2020 pandemic	8
ChatGPT: the threats to medical education	8
Acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura post first dose of COVID-19 vaccination	8
COVID-19 and medical professionalism in a pandemic	8
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics surgery: transforming technological innovation in patient care and surgical training	8
Violence against doctors: an emerging epidemic amidst COVID-19 pandemic in India	8
‘Triple therapy’ (elexacaftor, tezacaftor, ivacaftor) skin rash in patients with cystic fibrosis	8
Guidelines for mono, double and triple antithrombotic therapy	8
Diuretic-induced hypokalaemia: an updated review	8
Bilateral paracentral acute middle maculopathy in a SARS-CoV-2-positive patient	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
Gender and racial trends among neurology residents: an overview	8
Parosmia post COVID-19: an unpleasant manifestation of long COVID syndrome	7
Decreased eosinophil counts and elevated lactate dehydrogenase predict severe COVID-19 in patients with underlying chronic airway diseases	7
Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides	7
Immediate consequences and solutions used to maintain medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic for residents and medical students: a restricted review	7
Experience of video consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic in elderly population for Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders	7
Efficacy of ultrasound guidance for lumbar punctures: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	7
ChatGPT in research and health professions education: challenges, opportunities, and future directions	7
Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department	7
Systematic review of interventions to improve gender equity in graduate medicine	7
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	7
Remote consultations in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: student perspectives	7
Computer image analysis with artificial intelligence: a practical introduction to convolutional neural networks for medical professionals	7
Description of multimorbidity clusters of admitted patients in medical departments of a general hospital	6
Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Hospital-acquired serum phosphate derangements and their associated in-hospital mortality	6
Examining medical student volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic as a prosocial behaviour during an emergency	6
High-stakes examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: to proceed or not to proceed, that is the question	6
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	6
Competency-based novel medical curriculum in India	6
Residency interviews in the digital era	6
Preoperative cardiac risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients without heart failure undergoing hip fracture surgery: a single-centre study	6
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO): a new attractive target to decrease cardiovascular risk	6
Clinical Orthopaedic Teaching programme for Students (COTS)	6
Snake envenomation-induced acute kidney injury: prognosis and long-term renal outcomes	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
Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and pharmaceutical prescribing in primary care in England	6
Clinician and patient experience of neurology telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Serum pepsinogen levels and OLGA/OLGIM staging in the assessment of atrophic gastritis types	6
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	5
From the lens of the clinical residents: undergraduate to postgraduate medical education and the transition process	5
Otolaryngology manifestations of COVID-19: a contemporary viewpoint	5

Medical activism	5
Cosmetic surgeries and procedures among youth in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study of undergraduate university students in the Eastern Province	5
Evaluation of a survey for acute care programme directors on the utilisation of point-of-care ultrasound	5
Medical education-collateral damage of COVID-19?	5
Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a primary skin manifestation of COVID-19	5
Factors associated with symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis in severe white matter lesions: a retrospective analysis	5
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	5
Educational opportunities for postgraduate medical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: deriving value from old, new and emerging ways of learning	5
Differential attainment in higher surgical training: scoping pan-specialty spectra	5
NeuroVerse: neurosurgery in the era of Metaverse and other technological breakthroughs	5
Interventions that improve adherence to antihypertensive medications in coronary heart disease patients: a systematic review	5
The challenge of environmental sustainability in radiology training and potential solutions	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
rs10865710 polymorphism inPPARGpromoter is associated with the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in a Chinese population	5
Surgical factors associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation after lung resection: the EPAFT multicentre study	5
‘Masking’ emotions: doctor–patient communication in the era of COVID-19	5
Bronchoscopic intratumoral injections of cisplatin and endostar as concomitants of standard chemotherapy to treat malignant central airway obstruction	5
Terbinafine-induced Steven-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) overlap	5
Medical doctors in India are on strike: a moral and national conundrum	5
Knowledge towards COVID-19 among healthcare students in the central region of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study	5
Validation of phlebotomy performance metrics developed as part of a proficiency-based progression initiative to mitigate wrong blood in tube	5
Zinc supplementation ameliorates type 2 diabetes markers through the enhancement of total antioxidant capacity in overweight patients	5
Paraneoplastic encephalitis: clinically based approach on diagnosis and management	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
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
Medical informed choice: understanding the element of time to meet the standard of care for valid informed consent	5
2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Heterogeneity of clinical and radiological findings of COVID-19	4
Circulating sex hormone-binding globulin levels and ischemic stroke risk: a Mendelian randomization study	4
Alerting on mortality among patients discharged from the emergency department: a machine learning model	4
COVID-19, bubonic and meningitis in Democratic Republic of Congo: the confluence of three plagues at a challenging time	4
What is in the toolkit (and what are the tools)? How to approach the study of doctor–patient communication	4
National evaluation of trauma teaching for students (NETTS)	4
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	4
COVID-19-associated new-onset hyperglycaemia: a reversible entity or persistent risk?	4
What matters to people with multiple long-term conditions and their carers?	4
SARS-CoV-2 serological assay and viral testing: a report of professional football setting	4
Human cytomegalovirus infection is associated with stroke in women: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004	4
Role of multimodality imaging in a case of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	4
Deconstructing language barriers in healthcare: where are we going wrong?	4
Applied genomics for identification of virulent biothreats and for disease outbreak surveillance	4
Developing useful early warning and prognostic scores for COVID-19	4
Delayed olanzapine induced myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis	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
In situ simulation training for a better interprofessional team performance in transferring critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective randomised control trial	4
Is taking a history outmoded? Why doctors should listen to stories instead	4
Increased serum nesfatin-1 levels in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases	4
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	4
Lenalidomide-induced focal myocarditis mimicking acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction	4
Medical management for the prevention of kidney stones	4
Clinical and prognostic significance of elevated ferritin levels in hospitalised adults	4
COVID-19 vaccination: patient uptake and attitudes in a multi-ethnic North London maternity unit	4
Pholcodine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in a patient with COVID-19	4
Clinical Audit Platform for Students (CAPS): a pilot study	4
Performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) in Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP)-style examination questions	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
Relationship between red blood cell–related indices and coronary artery calcification	4
Hypertension and psychosis	4
Radiological approach to cavitary lung lesions	4
British doctors’ work–life balance and home-life satisfaction: a cross-sectional study	3
Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and silent brain infarction	3
Combined lifestyle factors are associated with the risk of ischaemic stroke in a Chinese population	3
Maintaining surgical training during COVID-19 and redeployment: experiences from a group of core surgical trainees	3
Teaching and facilitating groups online: adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Warfarin induced skin necrosis	3
Developing the ‘checking’ discipline	3
Resurgence of COVID-19 in India: time for introspection	3
Will webinars prove to be an effective teaching medium post-pandemic?	3
How to best handle vaccine decliners: scientific facts and psychological approach	3
Syncope in pulmonary embolism: a retrospective cohort study	3
Thiamine deficiency: a commonly unrecognised but easily treatable condition	3
Appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography in the investigation of general medicine patients presenting with syncope or presyncope	3
Audit of oxygen administration to achieve a target oxygen saturation range in acutely unwell medical patients	3
Completeness and quality of text paging for subspecialty consult requests	3
Shear wave elastography and microvascular ultrasound in response evaluation to calcipotriol+betamethasone foam in plaque psoriasis	3
Malnutrition and sarcopenia worsen short- and long-term outcomes in internal medicine inpatients	3
Natural history of pituitary apoplexy: a long-term follow-up study	3
Developing a blended learning postgraduate teaching programme in anaesthesia: pandemic and beyond	3
Risk–benefit analysis on the clinical significance of convalescent plasma therapy in the management of COVID-19	3
Gestational gigantomastia with massively haemorrhagic ulcers	3
Influence of medical trainee sleep pattern (chronotype) on burn-out and satisfaction with work schedules: a multicentre observational study	3
The Birkenhead drill suggests ‘women and children first': government and society’s reversal of the drill during the COVID-19 pandemic, left children last and cannot be allowed to continue	3
Can fibromyalgia be considered a characteristic symptom of climacterium?	3
Uric acid and diabetes mellitus: an update	3
Prognostic nomogram for patients with minor stroke and transient ischaemic attack	3
Migration intent among Jordanian medical students: a nationwide cross-sectional investigation	3
Diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in adulthood and eligibility for novel CFTR modulator therapy	3
Discrete choice experiment on educating value-based healthcare	3
Standardised training system for specialists in China: a new opportunity and challenge for doctors	3
Implementing a unique immersive near-peer-led clinical skills educational bootcamp for early-year clinical medical students	3