OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern Medical Journal is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Undiagnosed HIV in Patients on Immunosuppressive Medications Presenting with HIV-Associated Kidney Disease	36
Optimal Treatment for Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction	25
SMA’s 2nd Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	20
Optimizing the Dermatologic Formulary at a Free Clinic	17
An Electronic Medical Record Pocket Guide for Incoming Internal Medicine Interns: Perceptions and Impact on Patient Information Gathering	11
Effect of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor Use on Time to HIV Viral Suppression before Delivery	10
Utilizing Learning Communities to Implement a Wellness-in-Action Session in Undergraduate Medical Education	10
Fostering Collaboration: An Interprofessional Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Workshop for Medical, Physician Assistant, Nursing, and Pharmacy Students	9
Early Performance of the Patients Over Paperwork Initiative among Family Medicine Physicians	9
Risk Factors and Surgical Outcomes of Older Adult Patients Undergoing a Whipple Procedure	9
Matching Against Men: 5 Years of Residency Match Data Show Disparities Still Exist	8
Impact of School-Enforced Step 1 Deadlines on Medical Student Well-Being and Failure Rates: Two Medical Students’ Perspective	8
SMA’s 5th Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	8
Intimate Partner Violence: Physicians Must Address Physical and Mental Health Harms	8
Pregnancy-Associated Diabetes Mellitus and Stillbirths by Race and Ethnicity among Hospitalized Pregnant Women in the United States	6
Distinguishing Therapeutic Misconception from Religious Belief	6
When Suicidality Is Suspected	6
Firearm Shootings: A Serious Public Health Issue	6
Inattentional Blindness as an Underappreciated Emphasis in Patient Safety Education: Need for Greater Recognition in Medical and Surgical Training	6
Extensions of Preventive Health in Addition to the Healthcare Provider	6
Maternal and Infant Outcomes in a Subset of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in South Carolina	6
Telemedicine: Raising the Bar or Crouching Beneath It?	6
Assessing the Knowledge and Comfort Level of US Family Medicine Residents Regarding Consenting and Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care	5
Neighborhood Ecologies, Cases, and Deaths during the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Current and Future Epidemics?	5
Exploring Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Geriatric Patients: A Needs Assessment: Erratum	5

Smartphone-Enabled Otoscopy to Bridge Rural ENT Disparities	5
Comanagement of Lung Transplant Patients: A Novel Approach	5
Risk of Nephrolithiasis in Cirrhosis: A Comparison between MASLD Cirrhosis and Cirrhosis Due to Other Etiologies	5
Why Is US Health Care Failing? Some Reasons Are Obvious, but Fixes Are Harder	5
Providing Structured Real-Time Feedback on Postdischarge Outcomes Using Electronic Health Record Data	5
Gender-Based Differences in Mental Health Outcomes Following Breast Surgery: Insights from Epic Cosmos	5
Evaluating Graduate Medical Education Meetings Using a Modified Nominal Group Technique	5
Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors, Perceived COVID-19 Risk, and Engagement with Health Protective Behaviors	5
Safety Profile of Using Tocilizumab in the Treatment of Severely Ill Patients with COVID-19	5
Recent Trends and Challenges in Employment for Emergency Medicine Trainees: A Survey of Graduating Residents’ Perspectives	5
Facilitating the Advance Care Planning Conversation with Patients: An Interactive Virtual 1.5-Hour Session	5
Procedural Decision Making by Hospitalists: The Need for a Team Approach	5
Novel Innovation Curriculum in Internal Medicine Residency Training	4
A Survey of Louisiana Pediatricians’ Approach to Parenting Teens and Adolescent Reproductive Health	4
Factors Affecting Neurological Presentation and Severity in Pediatric Off-Highway Vehicle Accidents in Texas	4
Rise in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Rate Is Associated with Increase in Buprenorphine Prescription Numbers	4
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Positivity in Pregnant Women Living in Areas with High Social Vulnerability Indices	4
Associations of Source and Continuity of Private Health Insurance with Prevalence of Chronic Pain among US Adults	4
Safety of Nonvitamin K Antagonists Compared with Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and End-Stage Kidney Disease	4
Contraception Use and Pregnancy Outcomes for Alabama Medicaid Enrollees: A Baseline Analysis Using 2012–2017 Data	4
Time to Hip Fracture Surgery and Mortality	4
Evaluating Internal Medicine Intern Report Efficacy: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey	4
ICU-Broncho-Aspiration Protocols Monitoring at an Academic Health Network System	4
A Breathtaking Introduction to Medical School	4
Influence of Cultural Values and Integrational Acculturation Differences on the Behavioral Health Treatment of Asian American Immigrant Children in the COVID-19 Era	4
Heart Disease Mortality on the Mississippi River	4
Falls from Tree Stands Have Become the Leading Cause of Deer Hunting Accidents in Pennsylvania	4
How Student and Faculty Perceptions Differ on the Stressors that Medical Students Face	4
Readmission Risk after COVID-19 Hospitalization: A Moderation Analysis by Vital Signs	4
Antibody-Drug Conjugates in the Management of Breast Cancer	4
Developing the Good Physician: The Influence of Role Models in the Development of Virtues and Flourishing in Medical Students	4
Online Interest in Colorectal Cancer Screening in Florida	4
Training with Artificial Intelligence: Are There Hidden Costs in Clinical Reasoning and Medical Education?	4
Increasing Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Older Adults	4
Investigating the Relation between Electronic Cigarette Use and Sleep Duration in Kentucky Using the BRFSS, 2016–2017	4
Extended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis after Robotic Staging for Endometrial Cancer	3
Guidelines Could Reduce Opioid Prescribing for Uncomplicated Distal Radius Fractures	3
Special Emphasis on the Opioid/Substance Abuse Crisis	3
Annual FEV1 Loss in Patients with Noncystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis and Affecting Factors	3
Fit Testing Failure of Reprocessed “Duckbill”-Type N95 Masks	3
Effect of Delirium on Interhospital Transfer Outcomes	3
Lymphedema Awareness and Experience in the Turner Syndrome Community	3
Minimally Invasive Burch Colposuspension to Reduce De Novo Stress Incontinence: The MICRO Randomized Trial	3
Commentary on “Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Late-State, Severe COVID-19 Infection”	3
Association between Body Composition Parameters and Heart Rate in a Sample of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa	3
An Approach to Gynecomastia in Primary Care Clinics	3
Perceptions of Gender Stereotypes among Women Residents in Surgical and Nonsurgical Specialties	3
Evaluation of a Multifaceted Protocol in Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry Monitoring across a Large Healthcare System	3
Androgen Deprivation Therapy/Androgen Receptor Signaling Inhibitor Treatments for Prostate Cancer: Pathophysiology and Review of Effects on Cardiovascular Disease	3
Barriers to Mental Health Care Identified by Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals in Georgia and South Carolina	3

Important Advances in Pediatric Injury Prevention	3
Use of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Asthma	3
Efficacy of Methods for Addressing Antifat Bias in Medical Education	3
Patient Self-Reported Allergies and Their Correlation with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Outcomes	3
Financial Literacy of Medical Trainees: A Major and Worrisome Educational Void to Fill	3
Cancer Screening Prevalence and Preference among Hospitalized Women With and Without Obesity	3
On “Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource”	3
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis	3
SMA’s 2023 Annual Scientific Assembly Abstract Presentations	3
Aortic Stenosis Associated with an Increase in Mortality in Surgical Hip Fracture Patients	3
Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in US Adults with and without Heart Failure: 2007–2018 NHANES	3
Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Provider Onboarding and Development Program	3
Self-Administered Relaxation Techniques Improving Postconcussive Mood Symptoms in an Appalachian Population	3
A Primary Care Approach to Visual Screening in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	3
White Blood Counts of Hospitalized Patients Without Infection, Malignancy, or Immune Dysfunction	3
Prevalence of Germline Mutations among Young Women with Breast Cancer in Louisiana by Cancer Subtype and Race	3
Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning	3
Characteristics of a Southern Intensive Trauma- and Psychiatric-Focused Recovery Program	3
Community Outreach: A Strategy to Increase Recruitment of Latinx Medical Students into Otolaryngology	3
Surging Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis from 2000–2022: A National Database Study	3
Optimizing Patient Experience to Improve Physician Survey Scores	3
Effects of Preoperative COVID-19 Status on Emergent or Urgent Colectomy Outcomes	2
Student Clinical Experiences in Cross-Cultural Education	2
Exploration of the Intersection between Infant Feeding and Postpartum Contraception in Western North Carolina: Perspectives of Postpartum Individuals and Providers	2
Discrepancies in Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity in COVID-19 Patients Receiving Casirivimab and Imdevimab	2
Supporting Women in Academic Medicine and Science: A Pilot Survey of Wellness, Passion Fatigue, and Burnout	2
Know Your Guidelines: American Journal of Gastroenterology Clinical Guidelines on Acute Liver Failure	2
Evaluation of a Puberty Education Program for Girls and Their Caregivers in Arkansas	2
Religion/Spirituality Curriculum in US Osteopathic Medical Schools: A Survey	2
Evaluation of an Internal Medicine Transition to Residency Course	2
Comparative Analysis of Costs of Caring for Inpatient COVID-19 Patients and Non-COVID-19 Patients at One Academic Center	2
Evaluation of the Effect of Biochemistry Parameters on the Clinical Course in COVID-19 Patients Who Received Tocilizumab Treatment	2
Social Determinants’ Role in Pediatric Respiratory Health: Health Insights from Central Florida	2
Regional Differences in Hospitalizations among Patients Admitted with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	2
Epidemiologic Assessment of Craniosynostosis in Mississippi’s Pediatric Population from 2015 to 2020	2
Impact of Patient Demographics on Student-Led Patient Navigation Outcomes: A Study of a South Florida Medical School’s Patient Navigation Program	2
Numismedica II: Health Problems Caused by Coins	2
Retaining Faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Academic Medicine: Results from a Needs Assessment	2
Perceptions, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health of Residents during COVID-19	2
Injuries Related to Nonpowder Firearms: A National Database Study	2
Screening Echocardiography in Adults with Down Syndrome	2
When a Pandemic Challenges the Art of Medicine	2
Cardiovascular Consequences of Anorexia Nervosa: QT Prolongation, Bradycardia, and Structural Cardiac Changes	2
Perceived Value of a Women’s Health Journal Club in Rural Hawai‘i	2
“I’m Not Good with Money” and Other Lies Residents Tell Themselves about Personal Finance	2
Sociodemographic Characteristics of HIV-Associated Dementia in the South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Registry	2
Exploring Bone Oncology in a Medically Underserved Area: A Retrospective Cohort of Bone Metastases and Malignant Bone Neoplasia in the Rio Grande Valley	2
Diagnosis of Gout as a Correlative Risk for Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors	2
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Settings: Presentation, Clinical Strategies, and Application of the Double Empathy Problem	2
Using Community Paramedicine to Treat Hepatitis C Virus in Upstate South Carolina	2
The Artist versus the Machine: Evaluating ChatGPT Efficacy in Antimicrobial Management for Pediatric Traumatic Wounds	2
A Comprehensive Review of COVID-19–Associated Endocrine Manifestations	2
Medications That May be Contributing to Your Patient’s Weight Gain	2
Impact of Sling Use on Functional Mobility in a Geriatric Population	2
Role of hs-CRP in Post-MI Sequelae: Insights into Mechanisms and Clinical Significance	2
Secondary Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnancy Intention	2
Empowering the Community Health Worker Role in the Stroke Continuum of Care: Development of the Florida Stroke Registry CHW Stroke Training Program	2
Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound–Guided Mediastinal Lymph Node Transbronchial Forceps Biopsies (EBUS-TBFB)	2
Enhanced Notification of Radiographic Incidental Findings in Trauma Does Not Guarantee Follow-Up Compliance	2
Retrospective Analysis of Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist Therapy	2
Unresolvable Moral Disagreements and the Ethical Integrity of the Medical Profession	2
Characteristics of Sports-Related Injuries Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department	2
Proportion and Characterization of Co-infections of HIV and Hepatitis C or Hepatitis B among People with HIV in Alabama, 2007–2016 - Erratum	2
Opioid Use Disorder and Pharmacological Treatment in Southwestern North Carolina: NC SID Database 2000–2020	2
Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource	2
On the Tip of Our Tongue: Sublingual Cyclobenzaprine and Fibromyalgia	2
Could High Game Volume over a Shorter Season Increase Noncontact Knee Injury Risk among Kentucky High School Girls’ Basketball Players?	2
Let the Program Evaluation Committee SOAR: Applying the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) Framework for Program Evaluation	2
COVID-19 Patients with Kidney Disease and Completion of Remdesivir Treatment	2
Undergraduate College Pathway Programs Designed to Attract and Matriculate Students from Underrepresented Groups into Medicine	2
Physician Leader, Humble Thyself: Balancing Narcissism and Humility in Healthcare Leadership	2
Patient-Level Characteristics Associated with Tobacco Users and Nonusers at a Student-Run Free Clinic	2
Where Are Future Doctors Who Southern Rural African Americans Will Trust? A Look Back into Rural Medical Scholars Data	2
Vessel Sealant Devices in Thyroidectomies: An ACS-NSQIP Study	2
Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Hospital at Home in Patients with COVID-19	2