Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
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International medical graduates	78
How to advocate for vulnerable groups	60
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?	56
From JRSM Open	48
Death Notices	47
Learning the craft – own experience	39
From JRSM Open	36
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Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias	34
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care	33
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	29
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	29
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	26
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award	22
Death Notices	22
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’	21
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?	20
Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland	18
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective	17
John Keats: the mystery years	16
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Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic	15
The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	14
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure	14

Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research	12
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT	12
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	12
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic	12
Death Notices	11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death	11
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	11
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative	11
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision	11
The results of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years: a propensity weighted study of outcomes at six months	11
The nation’s doctor and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS	11
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Pharmaceutical industry payments to healthcare professional organisations in the United Kingdom: a seven-year cross-sectional analysis of the Disclosure UK database from 2015 to 2021	10
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?	10
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis	10
The development of network meta-analysis	9
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	9
Confronting three great men of cardiology This is an extract from Dr Samways Writes to the Editor, The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician (1857–1931) by Tom Treasure	8
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding	8
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator	8
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval	8
Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction	8
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	8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance	8
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	8
Death Notices	8
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway	8
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’	8
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies	7
Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education	7
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	6
Death Notices	6
Death Notices	6
From JRSM Open	6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis	6
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials	6
Death Notices	6
Healthcare and feminism	6
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’	5
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From JRSM Open	5
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	5
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records	5
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis	5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	5
From JRSM Open	5
Death Notices	5
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing	5

Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	4
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	4
From JRSM Open	4
Death Notices	4
From JRSM Open	4
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	4
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GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	4
Death Notices	4
If in doubt, think patient	4
Death Notices	4
Death Notices	3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	3
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia	3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics	3
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Death Notices	3
Death Notices	3
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Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	3
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations	3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories	3
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Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany	3
Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?	3
From JRSM Open	3
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	3
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	3
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence	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
Shenanigans in the deadhouse	3
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope	3
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	3
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice	3
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?	3
Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?	3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England	3
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?	2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	2
Africa, climate change and the markets	2
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited	2
Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea	2
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Social care need in multimorbidity	2
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study	2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?	2
Lessons from the pandemic: the award of honours	2
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review	2
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots	2
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	2
From JRSM Open	2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism	2
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
From JRSM Open	2
What’s medicine for?	2
Response to Bowsher et al. (2021) veterinary intelligence	2
From JRSM Open	2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning	2
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General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health	2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	2
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm	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
Trusting in lived experience	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 2	1
Death Notices	1
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	1
The need for patient rights in AI-driven healthcare – risk-based regulation is not enough	1
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	1
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	1
From JRSM Open	1
Death Notices	1
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From JRSM Open	1

Response to ‘When is a screening test not a screening test?’	1
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	1
Death Notices	1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	1
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	1
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 2021	1
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	1
How can the NHS be funded?	1
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	1
Doctors working in teams	1
How doctors think about their role in transgender care: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners and endocrinologists	1
Vaccination in pregnancy: the vaccine bit is easy, the behaviour is hard	1
How I came to write papers for clinicians in the late 1980s about improving the quality of reviews	1
Robotic techniques benefit anaesthesia too	1
Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model	1
Learning the craft – general practice stories	1
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	1
Bad decision making on Earth and in space	1
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	1
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Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry	1
60th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: ethical challenges in the 10th amendment	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
Death Notices	1
Are we selecting the right medical students?	1
Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness	1
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry	1
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	1
Death Notices	1
The ‘personal equation’ as observer bias, and proposed methods to contain it in Anglo-American medicine	1
The craft of medicine	1
How to avoid harmful national quarantines: primary care led local public health: a historical perspective	1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?	1
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	1
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland	1
ReSPECT at the bedside – between design and reality	1
The constitution, functions and skill sets of teams	1
Vaccinating children against Covid: the elusive goal of herd immunity	1
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree	1
COVID-19 and herd immunity	1
Global burden of malaria and neglected tropical diseases in children and adolescents, 1990–2019: a population-based, cross-sectional study	1
99.53% and the history of probability	1
Retraction Notice: “Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study”	1
From JRSM Open	1
Death Notices	1
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis	1
Death Notices	1
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	1
From JRSM Open	1
From JRSM Open	1
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 2: the advent and expansion of randomised controlled trials	1
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	1
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From JRSM Open	1
From JRSM Open	1
Arts, literature, and witchcraft: medicine’s many personalities	1
‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’	1
Death Notices	1
Declaration of Helsinki: a new revision at sixty years	1
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The myths of NHS privatisation: a commentary on factoids, policy zombies and category errors	0
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity	0
Death Notices	0
Keeping ‘quiet quitting’ away among Filipino nurses	0
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	0
Clinical failure: the unaddressed challenge	0
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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	0
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Who makes a good leader?	0
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	0
COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in people with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 4 million people	0
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	0
We still know little about long COVID	0
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Once a doctor, always a doctor	0
Death Notices	0
Failing to learn? The NHS is losing its capacity for system-wide safety investigation	0
What makes a good doctor – and who gets to decide?	0
Death Notices	0
Death Notices	0
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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	0
Why better interpretation of science leads to better care	0
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What is mentoring? For whom and why?	0
Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues	0
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	0
The dilemmas of investing in health and humanity	0
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	0
From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors	0
From JRSM Open	0
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