Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	542
Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?	243
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	90
Environmental impact of personal protective equipment distributed for use by health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic	88
Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis	81
Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight	66
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	65
Anger and confrontation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey in the UK	51
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction	46
COVID-19 presents opportunities and threats to transport and health	43
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	38
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	34
What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate and support’ systems?	33
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	32
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	32
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	28
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	25
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	23
Improving adherence to ‘test, trace and isolate’	22
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	22
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	21
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	21
Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK	20
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	20
Maximising the impact of social prescribing on population health in the era of COVID-19	20

Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups	20
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	19
Transforming health through the metaverse	18
A price tag on clinical empathy? Factors influencing its cost-effectiveness	17
The potential effectiveness of the WHO International Health Regulations capacity requirements on control of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of 114 countries	16
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	16
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	16
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	15
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	14
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	14
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	14
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	14
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	12
A socially just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action on the social determinants of urban health inequalities	12
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	12
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	12
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	12
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	11
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	10
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study	10
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	10
Medical consumerism and the modern patient: successful ageing, self-management and the ‘fantastic prosumer’	10
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	9
Test and trace strategy has overlooked importance of clinical input, clinical oversight and integration	9
Fixing England’s COVID-19 response: learning from international experience	9
COVID-19: the role of community in China’s response	9
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	8
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	8
Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century	8
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	8
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	8
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	7
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	7
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
COVID-19 and developing countries: lessons learnt from the Sri Lankan experience	7
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	7
Shoe leather epidemiology in the age of COVID: lessons from Cuba	7
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	7
Advancing UK regulatory science and innovation in healthcare	6
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	6
Defining and detecting fake news in health and medicine reporting	6
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	6
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	6
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	6
Should we let fever run its course in the early stages of COVID-19?	6
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1990–present: organisational issues and the rise of the robots	6

Data-driven, integrated primary and secondary care for children: moving from policy to practice	6
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	6
Racial, ethnic and regional differences in the effect of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists on cardiovascular and renal outcomes: a systematic rev	6
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	5
The development of network meta-analysis	5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	5
COVID-19, seasonal influenza and measles: potential triple burden and the role of flu and MMR vaccines	5
Intensive versus standard blood pressure control in older persons with or without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	5
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
Is ‘inflammaging’ fuelling severe COVID-19 disease?	5
Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 2: the context of medicine and public health	4
Social care need in multimorbidity	4
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	4
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	4
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns	4
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	4
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months	4
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	4
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?	4
UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now	4
Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 1: the context of the social sciences	4
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	4
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	4
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study	4
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?	3
Using national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of a parsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19–a data-driven retrospective cohort study	3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	3
Ethnic differences in success at application for consultant posts among United Kingdom physicians from 2011 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study	3
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	3
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	3
Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study	3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	3
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation	3
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism	3
Living with COVID	3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Recurrence of endometrial cancer in a hysterectomised patient treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer: a case report	3
Digitally enabled social prescriptions: adaptive interventions to promote health in children and young people	3
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies	3
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	3
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	3
Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing	3
Developing a culture of stewardship: how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in universal health systems	3
COVID 19: questioning and change must be the new normal	3
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?	3
What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?	3
Trust in healthcare	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3
Humility: the primary virtue of a good doctor	3
The poor relation: health education in English schools	3
COVID-19 and its impact on the clinical specialty training recruitment process: lessons learned and the shape of future specialty recruitment in the UK	3
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making	2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality	2
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	2
‘Managed convergence’ in health system digitalisation	2
What’s medicine for?	2
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	2
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions	2
The French road to Gavarret’s clinical application of probabilistic thinking Part 2: Louis-Denis-Jules Gavarret	2
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives	2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	2
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England’s hospitals	2
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis	2
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	2
COVID-19: state failure is our misery and their jackpot	2
Why we need an intelligence-led approach to pandemics: supporting science and public health during COVID-19 and beyond	2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults	2
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	2
Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year: a study of risk management	2
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	2

Doctor apprenticeships: a dilemma for the future of general practice in the NHS	2
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry	2
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?	2
Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England	2
Probabilistic thinking and evaluation of therapies: an introductory overview	2
How to avoid harmful national quarantines: primary care led local public health: a historical perspective	2
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects	2
COVID-19 and the Summer of Blood of 1381	2
The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?	2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?	2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	2
Projected spending for brand-name drugs in English primary care given US prices: a cross-sectional study	2
U-turns or no turns? Charting a safer course in health policy	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	2
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	2
Protecting the public from the adverse effects of confused research ethics	2
COVID-19 and the denial of structural racism	2
C4: ‘Command, control, coordination and communication’ at NHS Nightingale, London: introducing the tactical commander	2
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	2
Sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists treatment: variable observations of sequelae on diabetic retinopathy	1
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator	1
Single research ethics committee review for multinational trials is a misconception	1
Population-level breast screening: how to salvage the concept?	1
The NHS: COVID-19’s next casualty	1
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope	1
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 3: the double blind and the rise of ‘clinical pharmacology’	1
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study	1
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	1
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic	1
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	1
Shenanigans in the deadhouse	1
When is a screening test not a screening test?	1
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis	1
Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study	1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?	1
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	1
The globalisation of the chemical industry and the public health scandal of Forever Chemicals	1
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects	1
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity	1
COVID-19 risk mitigation in reopening mass cultural events: population-based observational study for the UK Events Research Programme in Liverpool City Region	1
The best and worst of role models across the generations	1
Theory and clinical use of probabilities in Germany after Gavarret. Part 1: introducing German dramatis personae	1
Is the 1948 model of access to free healthcare still appropriate today?	1
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 1: angina relief and suggestion	1
1948 healthcare: still appropriate today?	1
Living safely with COVID	1
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 2021	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.3: seemingly logical assumptions about treatments can be misleading	1
Learning from the vespertine doctors	1
What does medical professionalism mean?	1
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry	1
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 2020	1
Developing the collaboration between the James Lind Library and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine	1
Expression of concern: Articles by Hans J. Eysenck	1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness	1
If I was minister of health I would disable ‘customer service’ reviews on the NHS website	1
Why we need the Office for Minority Health	1
The difference in all-cause mortality between COVID-19 patients treated with standard of care plus placebo and those treated with standard of care alone: a network meta-analysis of randomised controll	1
2023: Another year of technology and Big Data?	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	1
Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on COVID-19 hospital admissions in England during 2021: an observational study	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 2	1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics. Part 3: 19th-century criticism and a paradigm lost	1
An assault upon women: reproductive rights in the US in the shadow of the 2022 US Supreme Court Ruling (the Dobbs ruling)	1
Uses and abuses of real-world data in generating evidence during a pandemic	1
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway	1
The differences and overlaps between ‘explanatory’ and ‘pragmatic’ controlled trials: a historical perspective	1
Recent advances in treatment of haemodialysis	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance	1
COVID-19 and the Liverpool influenza epidemic of 1950	1
The prevention of the importation of infectious diseases in England in 1877	1
COVID-21: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water	1
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations	1
Optimistic medicine	1
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research	1
Conclusions and perspectives, part II: social, national, and long-term perspectives	1
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	1
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-19	1
If I were minister for health, I would … review the four-hour waiting time in the emergency department	1
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study	1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics Part 2: the origin, use and limitations of his method	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	1
Was William Harvey’s commitment to experimentation reflected in his clinical practice?	1
‘Values to value’ for recovery and renewal: prudent healthcare the key to transforming the health and care system	1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises	1
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials	1
Conclusions and perspectives for the 20th century, part 1: 200 years of discussion	1
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis	1
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning	1