Postgraduate Medical Journal

Article	Citations
COVID-19: Current understanding of its Pathophysiology, Clinical presentation and Treatment	418
Short term, high-dose vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19 disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled, study (SHADE study)	186
SARS-CoV-2 and the pandemic of COVID-19	166
Vitamin D status and outcomes for hospitalised older patients with COVID-19	152
Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) attitudes and related factors towards COVID-19 vaccination: a rapid systematic review	142
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	138
Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic	135
ACE2 and COVID-19 and the resulting ARDS	91
Elevated N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide is associated with increased mortality in patients with COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis	82
COVID-19 in South Korea	80
Using Twitter for sentiment analysis towards AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines	75
Prognostic value of elevated lactate dehydrogenase in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	72
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	51
Impact of exposure to patients with COVID-19 on residents and fellows: an international survey of 1420 trainees	50
Preparing medical students for a pandemic: a systematic review of student disaster training programmes	50
Managing drug-induced QT prolongation in clinical practice	48
Continuing medical education during a pandemic: an academic institution’s experience	46
COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care	43
Anticoagulation in COVID-19: current concepts and controversies	42
COVID-19: a comparison to the 1918 influenza and how we can defeat it	40
COVID-19: to be or not to be; that is the diagnostic question	40
Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic	40
COVID-19 associated variations in liver function parameters: a retrospective study	38
Three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Will vaccination refusal prolong the war on SARS-CoV-2?	36

Association between IL-6 and severe disease and mortality in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postgraduate trainees: a cross-sectional survey	33
Is HbA1c an ideal biomarker of well-controlled diabetes?	32
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	32
Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from UK trainees	32
Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine	31
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): presentation, diagnosis and treatment	29
COVID-19 and functional disability: current insights and rehabilitation strategies	29
Statin use and clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Current situation with doctors and healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in India	27
Drug repurposing for COVID-19: a potential threat of self-medication and controlling measures	27
COVID-19 in patients with heart failure: the new and the old epidemic	27
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on healthcare workers: beyond the risk of exposure	27
Gender bias in reference letters for residency and academic medicine: a systematic review	26
Hypertension as an independent risk factor for severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study	26
Investigation of adverse reactions in healthcare personnel working in Level 3 barrier protection PPE to treat COVID-19	25
COVID-19 changes medical education in Italy: will other countries follow?	24
Russia-Ukraine conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Ukraine's healthcare system and a concern for global citizens	24
Impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on the physical and mental well-being of healthcare workers during COVID-19	24
Influence of the Peltzman effect on the recurrent COVID-19 waves in Europe	23
COVID-19 impact on junior doctor education and training: a scoping review	23
COVID-19 and remote consulting strategies in managing trauma and orthopaedics	23
Endocrine changes in SARS-CoV-2 patients and lessons from SARS-CoV	22
Efficacy of dietary supplements on improving sleep quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Cash, currency and COVID-19	21
Implementing a telemedicine curriculum for internal medicine residents during a pandemic: the Cleveland Clinic experience	21
ABO blood groups and severe outcomes in COVID-19: A meta-analysis	21
Symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections	21
Cross-sectional study on the role of public awareness in preventing the spread of COVID-19 outbreak in India	20
Racial and gender disparities in neurology	20
Burnout in the age of COVID-19	19
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–18	19
Planning virtual residency interviews as a result of COVID-19: insight from residency applicants and physicians conducting interviews	19
‘Learning from home’: role of e-learning methodologies and tools during novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak	18
Review on therapeutic targets for COVID-19: insights from cytokine storm	18
Effects of waist to height ratio, waist circumference, body mass index on the risk of chronic diseases, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality	18
Status and situation of postgraduate medical students in China under the influence of COVID-19	18
Application of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to improve medication safety: a systematic review	18
Mix and match COVID-19 vaccines: potential benefit and perspective from India	18
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	18
Analysis of lawsuits related to diagnostic errors from point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care in the USA	17
COVID-19 detection by dogs: from physiology to field application—a review article	17
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	17
COVID-19 and the plight of migrants in India	17
BAME community hesitancy in the UK for COVID-19 vaccine: suggested solutions	17
Characteristics and predictors of burnout among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in two tertiary hospitals	16
Bradycardia during remdesivir treatment might be associated with improved survival in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study on 473 patients from a tertiary centre	16
Early-onset dementia: key issues using a relationship-centred care approach	16
Emerging spectrum of post-COVID-19 syndrome	16
Guidance for providing effective feedback in clinical supervision in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review	15

Myositis due to COVID-19	14
Gender medicine: its historical roots	14
COVID-19 pandemic: stringent measures of Malaysia and implications for other countries	14
Patients gather in large hospitals: the current situation of Chinese hospitals and the direction of medical reform	14
Recent advances in the aetiology of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS)	14
Do we need the word ‘woman’ in healthcare?	13
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	13
Performance at medical school selection correlates with success in Part A of the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination	13
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (MIS-V), to interpret with caution	13
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	12
Effect of cigarette smoking on smoking biomarkers, blood pressure and blood lipid levels among Sri Lankan male smokers	12
Service reconfiguration in the department of hand surgery during the UK COVID-19 lockdown: Birmingham experience	12
COVID-19 pandemic and the reduction in ST-elevation myocardial infarction admissions	12
Efficacy and safety of iron therapy in patients with chronic heart failure and iron deficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on 15 randomised controlled trials	12
Surgical training fit for the future: the need for a change	12
China will fully implement the standardised training system for residents in 2020	12
Inadvertent subcutaneous injection of COVID-19 vaccine	12
Sharing is caring: an analysis of #FOAMed Twitter posts during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Effect of serial awake prone positioning on oxygenation in patients admitted to intensive care with COVID-19	11
Retrieving the deleterious mutations before extinction: genome-wide comparison of shared derived mutations in liver cancer and normal population	11
Is the English language a barrier to the non-English-speaking authors in academic publishing?	11
Point-of-care ultrasound augments physical examination learning by undergraduate medical students	11
Association between response rates and monetary incentives in sample study: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	11
Advances in the management of diabetes: therapies for type 2 diabetes	11
Urinary calcium indices in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH): which test performs best?	11
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: time to close the chapter	11
Efficacy and safety of low dose ticagrelor in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	11
The role of dry mouth in screening sleep apnea	10
E-learning of medical residents during COVID-19: perspective from a developing nation	10
Necessity is the mother of invention: how the COVID-19 pandemic could change medical student placements for the better	10
Telemedicine: a new normal in COVID era; perspective from a developing nation	10
Purpura fulminans as the presenting manifestation of COVID-19	10
Antithrombotic therapy and the risk of new-onset dementia in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation	10
Improving postoperative mobilisation rates in patients undergoing elective major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery	10
Development of anti-NXP2 dermatomyositis following Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccination	10
Gut microbiota and obesity: an overview of microbiota to microbial-based therapies	10
Ramsay Hunt syndrome following COVID-19 vaccination	10
Clinical and health policy challenges in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Why face-to-face medical education will prevail despite the world's swift acclimatisation to virtual learning	9
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	9
Antibiotic prescriptions by medical interns in Hong Kong: influence of the hospital settings and prescription culture	9
Egalitarianism in surgical training: let equity prevail	9
Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with fusion for treatment of multilevel cervical compressive myelopathy: an updated meta-analysis	9
Vitamin D levels and mortality with SARS-COV-2 infection: a retrospective two-centre cohort study	9
Complex regional pain syndrome: an evolving perspective	9
Adult outcomes after preterm birth	9
Sofosbuvir with daclatasvir and the outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis with GRADE assessment	9
Differential attainment in the MRCPsych according to ethnicity and place of qualification between 2013 and 2018: a UK cohort study	8
‘Triple therapy’ (elexacaftor, tezacaftor, ivacaftor) skin rash in patients with cystic fibrosis	8
ChatGPT: the threats to medical education	8
Acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura post first dose of COVID-19 vaccination	8
Inadvertent injection of COVID-19 vaccine into deltoid muscle vasculature may result in vaccine distribution to distance tissues and consequent adverse reactions	8
Is COVID-19 more severe in older men?	8
Non-diabetic ketoacidosis: a case series and literature review	8
Medical students and COVID-19: lessons learnt from the 2020 pandemic	8
Effects of the Mediterranean diet adherence on body composition, blood parameters and quality of life in adults	8
Gender and racial trends among neurology residents: an overview	8
Point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 pandemic	8
Grit: what is it and why does it matter in medicine?	8
Managing hand and reconstructive microsurgery service during COVID-19 pandemic: Singapore experience	8
Horizontal and vertical tracing: a cognitive forcing strategy to improve diagnostic accuracy	8
Advances in the management of diabetes: new devices for type 1 diabetes	8
Reviewing the use and quality of machine learning in developing clinical prediction models for cardiovascular disease	8
Bilateral paracentral acute middle maculopathy in a SARS-CoV-2-positive patient	8
Leadership gender disparity in the fifty highest ranking North American universities: Thematic analysis under a theoretical lens	8
COVID-19 and medical professionalism in a pandemic	7
Diuretic-induced hypokalaemia: an updated review	7
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	7
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics surgery: transforming technological innovation in patient care and surgical training	7
Remote consultations in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: student perspectives	7
Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department	7
Systematic review of interventions to improve gender equity in graduate medicine	7
Experience of video consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic in elderly population for Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders	7
Efficacy of ultrasound guidance for lumbar punctures: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	7
Atypical neurological manifestations of dengue fever: a case series and mini review	7
Does robotic-assisted surgery improve outcomes of total hip arthroplasty compared to manual technique? A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Guidelines for mono, double and triple antithrombotic therapy	7

Parosmia post COVID-19: an unpleasant manifestation of long COVID syndrome	7
Artificial intelligence in orthopaedics: can Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) pass Section 1 of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Trauma & Orthopaedics) examination	7
Diagnostic performance of morning serum cortisol as an alternative to short synacthen test for the assessment of adrenal reserve; a retrospective study	7
Violence against doctors: an emerging epidemic amidst COVID-19 pandemic in India	7
Terbinafine-induced Steven-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) overlap	7
Immediate consequences and solutions used to maintain medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic for residents and medical students: a restricted review	7
Examining medical student volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic as a prosocial behaviour during an emergency	6
High-stakes examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: to proceed or not to proceed, that is the question	6
Snake envenomation-induced acute kidney injury: prognosis and long-term renal outcomes	6
Hospital-acquired serum phosphate derangements and their associated in-hospital mortality	6
Residency interviews in the digital era	6
Clinician and patient experience of neurology telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Clinical Orthopaedic Teaching programme for Students (COTS)	6
Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Preoperative cardiac risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients without heart failure undergoing hip fracture surgery: a single-centre study	6
Impact of lockdown on medical emergency visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	6
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO): a new attractive target to decrease cardiovascular risk	6
Serum pepsinogen levels and OLGA/OLGIM staging in the assessment of atrophic gastritis types	6
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	6
Cultivation of compound ability of postgraduates with medical professional degree: the importance of double tutor system	6
Necrolytic migratory erythema: an important sign of glucagonoma	6
rs10865710 polymorphism inPPARGpromoter is associated with the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in a Chinese population	5
From the lens of the clinical residents: undergraduate to postgraduate medical education and the transition process	5
Validation of phlebotomy performance metrics developed as part of a proficiency-based progression initiative to mitigate wrong blood in tube	5
Decreased eosinophil counts and elevated lactate dehydrogenase predict severe COVID-19 in patients with underlying chronic airway diseases	5
‘Masking’ emotions: doctor–patient communication in the era of COVID-19	5
NeuroVerse: neurosurgery in the era of Metaverse and other technological breakthroughs	5
Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and pharmaceutical prescribing in primary care in England	5
Medical activism	5
Diagnosing, fast and slow	5
Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a primary skin manifestation of COVID-19	5
Scoping review of COVID-19-related systematic reviews and meta-analyses: can we really have confidence in their results?	5
Interventions that improve adherence to antihypertensive medications in coronary heart disease patients: a systematic review	5
The challenge of environmental sustainability in radiology training and potential solutions	5
Competency-based novel medical curriculum in India	5
Experiences, patient interactions and knowledge regarding the use of cannabis as a medicine in a cohort of New Zealand doctors in an oncology setting	5
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	5
Knowledge towards COVID-19 among healthcare students in the central region of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study	5
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the young population; a 6-year review of the Irish out-of-hospital cardiac arrest register	5
COVID-19 and the burning issue of drug interaction: never forget the ECG	5
Medical education-collateral damage of COVID-19?	5
Sulfasalazine induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with prior cholecystectomy	5
Otolaryngology manifestations of COVID-19: a contemporary viewpoint	5
Description of multimorbidity clusters of admitted patients in medical departments of a general hospital	5
Zinc supplementation ameliorates type 2 diabetes markers through the enhancement of total antioxidant capacity in overweight patients	5
Knowledge and practice of home blood pressure monitoring 6 months after the risk and assessment management programme: does health literacy matter?	5
Educational opportunities for postgraduate medical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: deriving value from old, new and emerging ways of learning	5
Paraneoplastic encephalitis: clinically based approach on diagnosis and management	5
Using the cognitive apprenticeship model to identify learning strategies that learners view as effective in ward rounds	5
Evaluation of a survey for acute care programme directors on the utilisation of point-of-care ultrasound	5
What matters to people with multiple long-term conditions and their carers?	4
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	4
Human cytomegalovirus infection is associated with stroke in women: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004	4
Medical doctors in India are on strike: a moral and national conundrum	4
ChatGPT in research and health professions education: challenges, opportunities, and future directions	4
Clinical Audit Platform for Students (CAPS): a pilot study	4
Alerting on mortality among patients discharged from the emergency department: a machine learning model	4
Developing useful early warning and prognostic scores for COVID-19	4
National evaluation of trauma teaching for students (NETTS)	4
What is in the toolkit (and what are the tools)? How to approach the study of doctor–patient communication	4
In situ simulation training for a better interprofessional team performance in transferring critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective randomised control trial	4
Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides	4
COVID-19-associated new-onset hyperglycaemia: a reversible entity or persistent risk?	4
Why paleomedicine is useful for medical education	4
SARS-CoV-2 serological assay and viral testing: a report of professional football setting	4
Simple, fast and affordable triaging pathway for COVID-19	4
Association of mean arterial pressure with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in young adults	4
Heterogeneity of clinical and radiological findings of COVID-19	4
Pholcodine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in a patient with COVID-19	4
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	4
Surgical factors associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation after lung resection: the EPAFT multicentre study	4
Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus significantly impacts on quality of life of patients on haemodialysis and associates with increased levels of serum calcium and phosphorus	4
Medical informed choice: understanding the element of time to meet the standard of care for valid informed consent	4
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	4
Diagnostic and prognostic values of circular RNAs for lung cancer: a meta-analysis	4
Computer image analysis with artificial intelligence: a practical introduction to convolutional neural networks for medical professionals	4
Radiological approach to cavitary lung lesions	4
Role of multimodality imaging in a case of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	4
Lenalidomide-induced focal myocarditis mimicking acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction	4
2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Factors associated with symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis in severe white matter lesions: a retrospective analysis	4
Simple budget-neutral tool to improve intraoperative communication	4
Applied genomics for identification of virulent biothreats and for disease outbreak surveillance	4
COVID-19, bubonic and meningitis in Democratic Republic of Congo: the confluence of three plagues at a challenging time	4
Bronchoscopic intratumoral injections of cisplatin and endostar as concomitants of standard chemotherapy to treat malignant central airway obstruction	4
Concise genetic profile of lung carcinoma	4
Is taking a history outmoded? Why doctors should listen to stories instead	4
Recalibrating our efforts: from globalisation to glocalisation of medical education	4