Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review566
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 pandemic99
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors92
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study69
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction50
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study49
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing36
Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research: a critical overview of the problems, progress and suggested next steps36
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis32
The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes30
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study30
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom29
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland28
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype27
Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines24
Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups22
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?21
COVID-19 and the anti-vaxxers19
Transforming health through the metaverse19
COVID-19 vaccine allocation: addressing the United Kingdom’s colour-blind strategy19
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study19
Healthier schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: ventilation, testing and vaccination17
The potential effectiveness of the WHO International Health Regulations capacity requirements on control of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of 114 countries17
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?16
Challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic16
Patient and public involvement for ethnic minority research: an urgent need for improvement16
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study15
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study15
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study14
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 countries14
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned13
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health13
Teachers: the forgotten health workforce12
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study11
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments10
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?10
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health10
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study10
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm9
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement9
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care9
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1850 to 1990: Technological developments8
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people8
Modifying the school determinants of children’s health8
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 28
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 18
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health8
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic7
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 rev7
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes7
Safe management of full-capacity live/mass events in COVID-19 will require mathematical, epidemiological and economic modelling7
Applying postcolonial theory in academic medicine7
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness7
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 1990–present: organisational issues and the rise of the robots7
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–20217
COVID-19 and herd immunity7
Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities6
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice6
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’6
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security6
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England’s hospitals5
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return5
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study5
The US Food and Drug Administration’s authorisation of Purdue’s controlled-release methylphenidate for adult ADHD: comments on the regulatory practice5
The development of network meta-analysis5
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare5
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened5
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns5
Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England5
Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective5
COVID-19, seasonal influenza and measles: potential triple burden and the role of flu and MMR vaccines5
Intensive versus standard blood pressure control in older persons with or without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon5
The poor relation: health education in English schools4
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 health4
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months4
Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis4
Trust in healthcare4
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic4
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals4
Financial difficulty in the medical profession4
Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation4
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context4
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update4
UK offshore immigration detention: why the medical community should act now4
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
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 sciences4
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 study4
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 study4
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model3
The inequitable impact of Covid-19 among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities is the direct result of centuries of persecution and racism3
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries3
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 study3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?3
Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on COVID-19 hospital admissions in England during 2021: an observational study3
Medicine, misconduct and confronting #MeToo3
The medicolegal landscape through the lens of COVID-19: time for reform3
COVID-19 and its impact on the clinical specialty training recruitment process: lessons learned and the shape of future specialty recruitment in the UK3
Aortovascular medicine: what is it?3
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis3
Mental health, the hidden crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic3
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 study3
Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies3
Long COVID – What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger3
Social care need in multimorbidity3
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century3
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making3
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health3
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable3
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 study3
If I were minister for health, I would … review the four-hour waiting time in the emergency department2
How to avoid harmful national quarantines: primary care led local public health: a historical perspective2
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic2
COVID-21: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair2
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study2
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry2
‘Managed convergence’ in health system digitalisation2
U-turns or no turns? Charting a safer course in health policy2
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials2
Recent advances in treatment of haemodialysis2
Facilitating genetic testing after death: the ongoing duty of care to the deceased and their relatives2
Why we need the Office for Minority Health2
Values to value’ for recovery and renewal: prudent healthcare the key to transforming the health and care system2
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question2
COVID-19: state failure is our misery and their jackpot2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks2
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading2
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?2
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults2
Uses and abuses of real-world data in generating evidence during a pandemic2
Doctor apprenticeships: a dilemma for the future of general practice in the NHS2
COVID-19 and the denial of structural racism2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform2
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic2
Communicating medicine: new ways, new audiences2
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 equality2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects2
What’s medicine for?2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health2
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions2
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?2
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis2
Protecting the public from the adverse effects of confused research ethics2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review2
COVID-19 and the Liverpool influenza epidemic of 19501
Prioritising the global response to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the fragile settings of the Global South1
The globalisation of the chemical industry and the public health scandal of Forever Chemicals1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics1
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-191
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading1
Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study1
What does medical professionalism mean?1
Theory and clinical use of probabilities in Germany after Gavarret. Part 1: introducing German dramatis personae1
The differences and overlaps between ‘explanatory’ and ‘pragmatic’ controlled trials: a historical perspective1
Who makes a good leader?1
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator1
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons1
The best and worst of role models across the generations1
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway1
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 controll1
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
Animal Farm in healthcare: definitions, policies, laws and implications for health professionals1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics Part 2: the origin, use and limitations of his method1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 21
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis1
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations1
Healthcare and feminism1
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope1
Conclusions and perspectives, part II: social, national, and long-term perspectives1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.3: seemingly logical assumptions about treatments can be misleading1
When is a screening test not a screening test?1
Was William Harvey’s commitment to experimentation reflected in his clinical practice?1
COVID-19 risk mitigation in reopening mass cultural events: population-based observational study for the UK Events Research Programme in Liverpool City Region1
Calling the end of the COVID-19 pandemic1
1948 healthcare: still appropriate today?1
Sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists treatment: variable observations of sequelae on diabetic retinopathy1
Gradgrind on COVID-191
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: standardisation and medicine1
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 1: angina relief and suggestion1
Learning from the vespertine doctors1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science1
Single research ethics committee review for multinational trials is a misconception1
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 20201
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant1
In praise of hygiene1
2023: Another year of technology and Big Data?1
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness1
ENO Breathe: ‘The art of medicine and the science of the arts’1
Conclusions and perspectives for the 20th century, part 1: 200 years of discussion1
Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues1
An assault upon women: reproductive rights in the US in the shadow of the 2022 US Supreme Court Ruling (the Dobbs ruling)1
If I was minister of health: democratising healthcare1
Living safely with COVID1
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises1
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity1
Are we selecting the right medical students?1
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care1
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry1
Is the 1948 model of access to free healthcare still appropriate today?1
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 11
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 20211
MacLean 1818: comparing like with like and recognising ethical double standards in therapeutic experimentation1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?1
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research1
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals1
Shenanigans in the deadhouse1
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics. Part 3: 19th-century criticism and a paradigm lost1
Health inequalities worsen with the drop in hospital referrals1
If I was minister of health I would disable ‘customer service’ reviews on the NHS website1
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Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm0
The Sovietisation of British medicine0
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Two million deaths and no accountability – an insane mistake of Einsteinian proportions0
Medicolegal consequences of altered COVID-19 vaccine administration0
The unwanted legacies of COVID-190
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis0
Purpose and limitations of carbon footprinting for healthcare0
English parallels to socialism: 1984–20240
Medical stereotypes that must be shaken and stirred0
Ethical versus psychological issues in paediatric organ donation: an analysis of UK and Swiss practice0
Vaccinating children against Covid: the elusive goal of herd immunity0
Artificial empathy? Humanity is not yet ready …0
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