Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review	477
Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?	217
Uncertainty and COVID-19: how are we to respond?	166
The primary care response to COVID-19 in England's National Health Service	100
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors	86
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	82
Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis	80
Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight	66
Loneliness, social isolation, cardiovascular disease and mortality: a synthesis of the literature and conceptual framework	64
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	64
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	45
COVID-19 presents opportunities and threats to transport and health	42
Clinical impact of multi-parameter continuous non-invasive monitoring in hospital wards: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Health inequalities: the hidden cost of COVID-19 in NHS hospital trusts?	38
COVID-19: the great unequaliser	36
Developing a sustainable exit strategy for COVID-19: health, economic and public policy implications	35
What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate and support’ systems?	33
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	30
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	30
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	29
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps	29
Protecting older people from COVID-19: should the United Kingdom start at age 60?	23
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	22
Improving adherence to ‘test, trace and isolate’	22

Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines	22
COVID-19 and the ‘Spanish' flu	22
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	21
Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK	20
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	20
Maximising the impact of social prescribing on population health in the era of COVID-19	20
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy	18
Preparing for COVID-19’s aftermath: simple steps to address social determinants of health	17
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination	16
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers	16
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	16
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	16
A price tag on clinical empathy? Factors influencing its cost-effectiveness	15
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	15
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	15
COVID-19 in India	15
Transforming health through the metaverse	14
Osteoporosis, like skin ageing, is caused by collagen loss which is reversible	14
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes	13
Sponsorship bias in clinical trials: growing menace or dawning realisation?	13
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	13
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	13
A socially just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action on the social determinants of urban health inequalities	12
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	12
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	12
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement	11
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	11
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	10
Medical consumerism and the modern patient: successful ageing, self-management and the ‘fantastic prosumer’	10
Patient-reported outcome measurement: a bridge between health and social care?	9
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	9
The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine. Part 1: ancient roots, familiar disputes	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
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study	9
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	8
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health	8
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	8
What can lifespan variation reveal that life expectancy hides? Comparison of five high-income countries	8
COVID-19: the role of community in China’s response	8
Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century	7
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	7
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	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
Shoe leather epidemiology in the age of COVID: lessons from Cuba	7
COVID-19 and herd immunity	7
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

Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	6
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling	6
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	6
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	6
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	6
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	6
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments	5
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	5
COVID-19, seasonal influenza and measles: potential triple burden and the role of flu and MMR vaccines	5
Should we let fever run its course in the early stages of COVID-19?	5
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	5
Advancing UK regulatory science and innovation in healthcare	5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	5
Defining and detecting fake news in health and medicine reporting	5
Is ‘inflammaging’ fuelling severe COVID-19 disease?	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
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice	5
The development of network meta-analysis	5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	5
UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now	4
Social care need in multimorbidity	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
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	4
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	4
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	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
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	4
COVID-19: fail to prepare, prepare to fail	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
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities	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
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	4
The origins of the treatment of uncertainty in clinical medicine – Part 2: the emergence of probability theory and its limitations	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
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	3
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	3
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	3
Humility: the primary virtue of a good doctor	3
The poor relation: health education in English schools	3
Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing	3
Living with COVID	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
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable	3
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo	3
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform	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
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	3
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger	3
The coronavirus pandemic: can we handle such epidemics better?	3
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine	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
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	3
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	3
Recurrence of endometrial cancer in a hysterectomised patient treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer: a case report	3
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	2
Why we need an intelligence-led approach to pandemics: supporting science and public health during COVID-19 and beyond	2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	2
Protecting the public from the adverse effects of confused research ethics	2
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions	2
Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England	2
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	2
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	2
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism	2
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation	2
How to avoid harmful national quarantines: primary care led local public health: a historical perspective	2
‘Managed convergence’ in health system digitalisation	2
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making	2
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies	2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality	2
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?	2
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health	2

The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?	2
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	2
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives	2
Digitally enabled social prescriptions: adaptive interventions to promote health in children and young people	2
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	2
Trust in healthcare	2
Writing about the plague	2
C4: ‘Command, control, coordination and communication’ at NHS Nightingale, London: introducing the tactical commander	2
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England’s hospitals	2
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	2
Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year: a study of risk management	2
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	2
Doctor apprenticeships: a dilemma for the future of general practice in the NHS	2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects	2
Projected spending for brand-name drugs in English primary care given US prices: a cross-sectional study	2
Ethnic differences in success at application for consultant posts among United Kingdom physicians from 2011 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	2
U-turns or no turns? Charting a safer course in health policy	2
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	2
COVID-19 and the denial of structural racism	2
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry	2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	2
Probabilistic thinking and evaluation of therapies: an introductory overview	2
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?	2
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	2
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	2
COVID-19: state failure is our misery and their jackpot	2
The French road to Gavarret’s clinical application of probabilistic thinking Part 2: Louis-Denis-Jules Gavarret	2
COVID-19 and the Summer of Blood of 1381	2
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
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
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry	1
Expression of concern: Articles by Hans J. Eysenck	1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?	1
When is a screening test not a screening test?	1
Shenanigans in the deadhouse	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
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis	1
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics Part 2: the origin, use and limitations of his method	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects	1
Population-level breast screening: how to salvage the concept?	1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises	1
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	1
Precision social prescriptions to promote active ageing in older people	1
Recent advances in treatment of haemodialysis	1
Living safely with COVID	1
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 2021	1
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope	1
The NHS: COVID-19’s next casualty	1
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	1
The prevention of the importation of infectious diseases in England in 1877	1
Optimistic medicine	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 2	1
Anatomising failure: there should be a statutory public inquiry into the UK Government’s handling of COVID-19	1
Developing the collaboration between the James Lind Library and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine	1
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness	1
What’s medicine for?	1
Why we need the Office for Minority Health	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	1
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic	1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	1
COVID-19 and the Liverpool influenza epidemic of 1950	1
The best and worst of role models across the generations	1
Is the 1948 model of access to free healthcare still appropriate today?	1
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.3: seemingly logical assumptions about treatments can be misleading	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	1
If I was minister of health I would disable ‘customer service’ reviews on the NHS website	1
Learning from the vespertine doctors	1
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	1
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	1
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	1
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-19	1
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	1
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study	1
2023: Another year of technology and Big Data?	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	1
‘Values to value’ for recovery and renewal: prudent healthcare the key to transforming the health and care system	1
Exploring depression through literature and art	1
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis	1
Uses and abuses of real-world data in generating evidence during a pandemic	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
The differences and overlaps between ‘explanatory’ and ‘pragmatic’ controlled trials: a historical perspective	1
Single research ethics committee review for multinational trials is a misconception	1
An assault upon women: reproductive rights in the US in the shadow of the 2022 US Supreme Court Ruling (the Dobbs ruling)	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-21: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water	1