Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	566
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	99
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	92
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	69
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction	50
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	49
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	36
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	36
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	32
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	30
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	30
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	29
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	28
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	27
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	24
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	22
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	21
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	19
Transforming health through the metaverse	19
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	19
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	19
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	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	17
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	16

Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	16
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	15
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	15
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	14
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	14
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	14
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	13
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	13
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	12
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	11
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	10
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	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
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	10
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	9
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	9
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	9
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	8
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	8
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	8
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	8
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	8
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
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	7
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	7
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	7
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	7
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1990–present: organisational issues and the rise of the robots	7
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	6
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	6
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	6
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	6
The development of network meta-analysis	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	5
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	5
Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England	5
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	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
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England’s hospitals	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
The poor relation: health education in English schools	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
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	4
Trust in healthcare	4
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	4
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	4
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation	4
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	4
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	4
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?	4
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	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
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	4
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?	4
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study	4
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
Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on COVID-19 hospital admissions in England during 2021: an observational study	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	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
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?	3
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis	3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study	3
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	3
Social care need in multimorbidity	3
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	3
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making	3
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health	3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	3
What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?	3
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	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
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	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
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	3
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	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
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?	3
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials	2
Recent advances in treatment of haemodialysis	2
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives	2
Why we need the Office for Minority Health	2
‘Values to value’ for recovery and renewal: prudent healthcare the key to transforming the health and care system	2
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	2
COVID-19: state failure is our misery and their jackpot	2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	2
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	2
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	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
Uses and abuses of real-world data in generating evidence during a pandemic	2
Doctor apprenticeships: a dilemma for the future of general practice in the NHS	2
COVID-19 and the denial of structural racism	2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	2
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Communicating medicine: new ways, new audiences	2
The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?	2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality	2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects	2
What’s medicine for?	2
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions	2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	2
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?	2
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis	2
Protecting the public from the adverse effects of confused research ethics	2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review	2
If I were minister for health, I would … review the four-hour waiting time in the emergency department	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
COVID-21: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	2
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study	2
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry	2
‘Managed convergence’ in health system digitalisation	2
U-turns or no turns? Charting a safer course in health policy	2
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 2021	1

MacLean 1818: comparing like with like and recognising ethical double standards in therapeutic experimentation	1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?	1
Conclusions and perspectives, part II: social, national, and long-term perspectives	1
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research	1
When is a screening test not a screening test?	1
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	1
Calling the end of the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Shenanigans in the deadhouse	1
Health inequalities worsen with the drop in hospital referrals	1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics. Part 3: 19th-century criticism and a paradigm lost	1
Gradgrind on COVID-19	1
The globalisation of the chemical industry and the public health scandal of Forever Chemicals	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
COVID-19 and the Liverpool influenza epidemic of 1950	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading	1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics	1
Theory and clinical use of probabilities in Germany after Gavarret. Part 1: introducing German dramatis personae	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	1
Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study	1
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator	1
The differences and overlaps between ‘explanatory’ and ‘pragmatic’ controlled trials: a historical perspective	1
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway	1
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	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
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics Part 2: the origin, use and limitations of his method	1
If I was minister of health: democratising healthcare	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 2	1
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	1
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis	1
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care	1
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations	1
Healthcare and feminism	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
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope	1
Was William Harvey’s commitment to experimentation reflected in his clinical practice?	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.3: seemingly logical assumptions about treatments can be misleading	1
1948 healthcare: still appropriate today?	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	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
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning	1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises	1
Sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists treatment: variable observations of sequelae on diabetic retinopathy	1
Learning from the vespertine doctors	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: standardisation and medicine	1
Single research ethics committee review for multinational trials is a misconception	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
In praise of hygiene	1
If I was minister of health I would disable ‘customer service’ reviews on the NHS website	1
2023: Another year of technology and Big Data?	1
Prioritising the global response to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the fragile settings of the Global South	1
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic	1
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-19	1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness	1
What does medical professionalism mean?	1
Conclusions and perspectives for the 20th century, part 1: 200 years of discussion	1
ENO Breathe: ‘The art of medicine and the science of the arts’	1
Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues	1
Who makes a good leader?	1
An assault upon women: reproductive rights in the US in the shadow of the 2022 US Supreme Court Ruling (the Dobbs ruling)	1
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity	1
The best and worst of role models across the generations	1
Living safely with COVID	1
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry	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
Are we selecting the right medical students?	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
Animal Farm in healthcare: definitions, policies, laws and implications for health professionals	1
Is the 1948 model of access to free healthcare still appropriate today?	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories	1
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99.53% and the history of probability	0
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Building back better, fairer, greener	0
Why RECOVERY is a milestone in medical research	0
Human, all too human – why artificial intelligence cannot “author” papers	0
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm	0
The Sovietisation of British medicine	0
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From JRSM Open	0
Two million deaths and no accountability – an insane mistake of Einsteinian proportions	0
Medicolegal consequences of altered COVID-19 vaccine administration	0
The unwanted legacies of COVID-19	0
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis	0
Purpose and limitations of carbon footprinting for healthcare	0
English parallels to socialism: 1984–2024	0
Medical stereotypes that must be shaken and stirred	0
Ethical versus psychological issues in paediatric organ donation: an analysis of UK and Swiss practice	0
Vaccinating children against Covid: the elusive goal of herd immunity	0
Artificial empathy? Humanity is not yet ready …	0
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Advocate or not to advocate: what is the point?	0