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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Undiagnosed HIV in Patients on Immunosuppressive Medications Presenting with HIV-Associated Kidney Disease	33
Optimal Treatment for Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction	19
SMA’s 2nd Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	16
Optimizing the Dermatologic Formulary at a Free Clinic	15
Utilizing Learning Communities to Implement a Wellness-in-Action Session in Undergraduate Medical Education	10
Effect of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor Use on Time to HIV Viral Suppression before Delivery	10
An Electronic Medical Record Pocket Guide for Incoming Internal Medicine Interns: Perceptions and Impact on Patient Information Gathering	10
Intimate Partner Violence: Physicians Must Address Physical and Mental Health Harms	9
Impact of School-Enforced Step 1 Deadlines on Medical Student Well-Being and Failure Rates: Two Medical Students’ Perspective	9
SMA’s 5th Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	9
Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record Alert to Improve Screening and Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Factors in a High-Risk Population	9
Matching Against Men: 5 Years of Residency Match Data Show Disparities Still Exist	8
Risk Factors and Surgical Outcomes of Older Adult Patients Undergoing a Whipple Procedure	8
An Epidemic Supplanted by a Pandemic: Vaping-Related Illness and COVID-19	8
Early Performance of the Patients Over Paperwork Initiative among Family Medicine Physicians	8
Extensions of Preventive Health in Addition to the Healthcare Provider	7
Providing Structured Real-Time Feedback on Postdischarge Outcomes Using Electronic Health Record Data	7
Moral Elevation, Physician Role Models, and Selected Markers of Professional Identity Formation and Well-Being: A Secondary Analysis from Two National Surveys	6
Inattentional Blindness as an Underappreciated Emphasis in Patient Safety Education: Need for Greater Recognition in Medical and Surgical Training	6
Firearm Shootings: A Serious Public Health Issue	6
When Suicidality Is Suspected	6
Distinguishing Therapeutic Misconception from Religious Belief	6
Pregnancy-Associated Diabetes Mellitus and Stillbirths by Race and Ethnicity among Hospitalized Pregnant Women in the United States	6
Telemedicine: Raising the Bar or Crouching Beneath It?	6
Exploring Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Geriatric Patients: A Needs Assessment: Erratum	5

Why Is US Health Care Failing? Some Reasons Are Obvious, but Fixes Are Harder	5
Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors, Perceived COVID-19 Risk, and Engagement with Health Protective Behaviors	5
Influence of Cultural Values and Integrational Acculturation Differences on the Behavioral Health Treatment of Asian American Immigrant Children in the COVID-19 Era	5
How Student and Faculty Perceptions Differ on the Stressors that Medical Students Face	5
Increasing Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Older Adults	5
Investigating the Relation between Electronic Cigarette Use and Sleep Duration in Kentucky Using the BRFSS, 2016–2017	5
Neighborhood Ecologies, Cases, and Deaths during the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Current and Future Epidemics?	5
Contraception Use and Pregnancy Outcomes for Alabama Medicaid Enrollees: A Baseline Analysis Using 2012–2017 Data	5
Novel Innovation Curriculum in Internal Medicine Residency Training	5
Recent Trends and Challenges in Employment for Emergency Medicine Trainees: A Survey of Graduating Residents’ Perspectives	5
Time to Hip Fracture Surgery and Mortality	5
Facilitating the Advance Care Planning Conversation with Patients: An Interactive Virtual 1.5-Hour Session	5
Risk of Nephrolithiasis in Cirrhosis: A Comparison between MASLD Cirrhosis and Cirrhosis Due to Other Etiologies	5
Maternal and Infant Outcomes in a Subset of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in South Carolina	5
Procedural Decision Making by Hospitalists: The Need for a Team Approach	5
Falls from Tree Stands Have Become the Leading Cause of Deer Hunting Accidents in Pennsylvania	5
Comanagement of Lung Transplant Patients: A Novel Approach	4
Assessing the Knowledge and Comfort Level of US Family Medicine Residents Regarding Consenting and Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care	4
Developing the Good Physician: The Influence of Role Models in the Development of Virtues and Flourishing in Medical Students	4
Physicians’ Role in the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Reflection	4
ICU-Broncho-Aspiration Protocols Monitoring at an Academic Health Network System	4
Online Interest in Colorectal Cancer Screening in Florida	4
Rise in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Rate Is Associated with Increase in Buprenorphine Prescription Numbers	4
Evaluating Graduate Medical Education Meetings Using a Modified Nominal Group Technique	4
Safety of Nonvitamin K Antagonists Compared with Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and End-Stage Kidney Disease	4
Factors Affecting Neurological Presentation and Severity in Pediatric Off-Highway Vehicle Accidents in Texas	4
Evaluating Internal Medicine Intern Report Efficacy: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey	4
A Survey of Louisiana Pediatricians’ Approach to Parenting Teens and Adolescent Reproductive Health	4
Analysis of the Effects of a Texas State-Wide Mask Mandate (Executive Order GA-29) on Case Load, Hospitalizations, and Mortality	4
Readmission Risk after COVID-19 Hospitalization: A Moderation Analysis by Vital Signs	4
A Breathtaking Introduction to Medical School	4
The Safe Discharge Checklist: A Standardized Discharge Planning Curriculum for Medicine Trainees	4
Aortic Stenosis Associated with an Increase in Mortality in Surgical Hip Fracture Patients	4
Rethinking the International Response System to Global Health Threats: Strengthening International Collaboration to Ensure Vaccine Equity and Combat Vaccination Hesitancy	4
An Approach to Gynecomastia in Primary Care Clinics	3
On “Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource”	3
Effect of Delirium on Interhospital Transfer Outcomes	3
Guidelines Could Reduce Opioid Prescribing for Uncomplicated Distal Radius Fractures	3
Important Advances in Pediatric Injury Prevention	3
Evaluation of a Multifaceted Protocol in Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry Monitoring across a Large Healthcare System	3
White Blood Counts of Hospitalized Patients Without Infection, Malignancy, or Immune Dysfunction	3
Extended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis after Robotic Staging for Endometrial Cancer	3
Annual FEV1 Loss in Patients with Noncystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis and Affecting Factors	3
Commentary on “Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Late-State, Severe COVID-19 Infection”	3
Measures of Frailty in Homebound Older Adults	3
Androgen Deprivation Therapy/Androgen Receptor Signaling Inhibitor Treatments for Prostate Cancer: Pathophysiology and Review of Effects on Cardiovascular Disease	3
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis	3
Perceptions of Gender Stereotypes among Women Residents in Surgical and Nonsurgical Specialties	3
Surging Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis from 2000–2022: A National Database Study	3
Prevalence of Germline Mutations among Young Women with Breast Cancer in Louisiana by Cancer Subtype and Race	3

Fit Testing Failure of Reprocessed “Duckbill”-Type N95 Masks	3
A Primary Care Approach to Visual Screening in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	3
Self-Administered Relaxation Techniques Improving Postconcussive Mood Symptoms in an Appalachian Population	3
Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in US Adults with and without Heart Failure: 2007–2018 NHANES	3
Patient Experiences at California Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Online Crowd-Sourced Reviews, 2010–2019	3
Clinical Outcomes of Noninvasive Ventilation in Asthma, Bronchiectasis, and Other COPD: Erratum	3
Efficacy of Methods for Addressing Antifat Bias in Medical Education	3
Characteristics of a Southern Intensive Trauma- and Psychiatric-Focused Recovery Program	3
Optimizing Patient Experience to Improve Physician Survey Scores	3
SMA’s 2023 Annual Scientific Assembly Abstract Presentations	3
Financial Literacy of Medical Trainees: A Major and Worrisome Educational Void to Fill	3
Minimally Invasive Burch Colposuspension to Reduce De Novo Stress Incontinence: The MICRO Randomized Trial	3
Association between Body Composition Parameters and Heart Rate in a Sample of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa	3
Community Outreach: A Strategy to Increase Recruitment of Latinx Medical Students into Otolaryngology	3
Do Interviews Really Matter in Generating Programs and Applicants’ Rank Lists for the Match?	3
Lymphedema Awareness and Experience in the Turner Syndrome Community	3
Cancer Screening Prevalence and Preference among Hospitalized Women With and Without Obesity	3
Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning	3
Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Provider Onboarding and Development Program	3
Patient Self-Reported Allergies and Their Correlation with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Outcomes	3
Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource	2
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Settings: Presentation, Clinical Strategies, and Application of the Double Empathy Problem	2
Know Your Guidelines: American Journal of Gastroenterology Clinical Guidelines on Acute Liver Failure	2
Injuries Related to Nonpowder Firearms: A National Database Study	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
Supporting Women in Academic Medicine and Science: A Pilot Survey of Wellness, Passion Fatigue, and Burnout	2
How Food Insecurity and Financial Difficulty Relate to Emotional Well-Being and Social Functioning	2
Retaining Faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Academic Medicine: Results from a Needs Assessment	2
Using Community Paramedicine to Treat Hepatitis C Virus in Upstate South Carolina	2
Diagnosis of Gout as a Correlative Risk for Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors	2
Barriers to Mental Health Care Identified by Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals in Georgia and South Carolina	2
Student Clinical Experiences in Cross-Cultural Education	2
Where Are Future Doctors Who Southern Rural African Americans Will Trust? A Look Back into Rural Medical Scholars Data	2
Regional Differences in Hospitalizations among Patients Admitted with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	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
Vessel Sealant Devices in Thyroidectomies: An ACS-NSQIP Study	2
Role of hs-CRP in Post-MI Sequelae: Insights into Mechanisms and Clinical Significance	2
Perceptions, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health of Residents during COVID-19	2
Commentary on “Rethinking the International Response System to Global Health Threats: Strengthening International Collaboration to Ensure Vaccine Equity and Combat Vaccination Hesitancy”	2
Let the Program Evaluation Committee SOAR: Applying the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) Framework for Program Evaluation	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
“I’m Not Good with Money” and Other Lies Residents Tell Themselves about Personal Finance	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
On the Tip of Our Tongue: Sublingual Cyclobenzaprine and Fibromyalgia	2
Perceived Value of a Women’s Health Journal Club in Rural Hawai‘i	2
Use of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Asthma	2
Special Emphasis on the Opioid/Substance Abuse Crisis	2
COVID-19 Patients with Kidney Disease and Completion of Remdesivir Treatment	2
Social Determinants’ Role in Pediatric Respiratory Health: Health Insights from Central Florida	2
Epidemiologic Assessment of Craniosynostosis in Mississippi’s Pediatric Population from 2015 to 2020	2
Numismedica II: Health Problems Caused by Coins	2
Impact of Patient Demographics on Student-Led Patient Navigation Outcomes: A Study of a South Florida Medical School’s Patient Navigation Program	2
Effects of Preoperative COVID-19 Status on Emergent or Urgent Colectomy Outcomes	2
Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Hospital at Home in Patients with COVID-19	2
Sociodemographic Characteristics of HIV-Associated Dementia in the South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Registry	2
Blending Virtual and In-Person Simulation Encounters to Teach Clinical Skills to Preclerkship Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Screening Echocardiography in Adults with Down Syndrome	2
Opioid Use Disorder and Pharmacological Treatment in Southwestern North Carolina: NC SID Database 2000–2020	2
Retrospective Analysis of Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist Therapy	2
Characteristics of Sports-Related Injuries Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department	2
Unresolvable Moral Disagreements and the Ethical Integrity of the Medical Profession	2
Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound–Guided Mediastinal Lymph Node Transbronchial Forceps Biopsies (EBUS-TBFB)	2
Evaluation of an Internal Medicine Transition to Residency Course	2
Enhanced Notification of Radiographic Incidental Findings in Trauma Does Not Guarantee Follow-Up Compliance	2
Evaluation of the Effect of Biochemistry Parameters on the Clinical Course in COVID-19 Patients Who Received Tocilizumab Treatment	2
To Inform, Recommend, and Sometimes Persuade: The Ethics of Physician Influence in Shared Decision Making	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
Secondary Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnancy Intention	2
Comparative Analysis of Costs of Caring for Inpatient COVID-19 Patients and Non-COVID-19 Patients at One Academic Center	2