OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern Medical Journal is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Esophageal Cancer: An Updated Review	40
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Pulmonary Toxicity: Focus on Nivolumab	25
Alpha-Gal Allergy as a Cause of Intestinal Symptoms in a Gastroenterology Community Practice	19
Arboviruses and Their Vectors	17
Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS) Inhibitors and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)	14
COVID-19 Impact on Orthopedic Surgeons: Elective Procedures, Telehealth, and Income	14
Prehospital ABC Score Accurately Forecasts Patients Who Will Require Immediate Resource Utilization	13
An Approach to Faculty Development for Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine	13
US Dermatology Resident Responses about the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a Nationwide Survey	12
Percentage of Black Population and Primary Care Shortage Areas Associated with Higher COVID-19 Case and Death Rates in Georgia Counties	11
Factors Affecting Patient Adherence to Lung Cancer Screening	9
Early Colectomy Saves Lives in Toxic Megacolon Due to Clostridium difficile Infection	9
Virtual Residency Interviews during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Applicant’s Perspective	9
Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Outcomes of Hospitalized Adults with COVID-19: Early Experience from an Academic Medical Center in Mississippi	9
Using a Hybrid Lecture and Small-Group Standardized Patient Case to Teach the Inclusive Sexual History and Transgender Patient Care	9
Effects of Preoperative WBC Count on Post-CABG Surgery Clinical Outcome	8
Keeping Children Safe at Home: Parent Perspectives to Firearms Safety Education Delivered by Pediatric Providers	8
Second Victim Experience among OBGYN Trainees: What Is Their Desired Form of Support?	8
Use of e-Cigarettes and Development of Respiratory Conditions in Women of Childbearing Age	8
Human-Centered Design for a Women’s Health Screening Tool: Participant Experiences	7
Analysis of the Effects of COVID-19 Mask Mandates on Hospital Resource Consumption and Mortality at the County Level	7
Evidence for Cancer Literacy Knowledge Retention among Kentucky Middle and High School Students after a Brief Educational Intervention	7
The Doctor Will “Friend” You Now: A Qualitative Study on Adolescents’ Preferences for Weight Management App Features	6
A Virtual Wellness and Learning Communities Program for Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Health Disparities among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Adults in Nashville, Tennessee	6

Supporting Trainees by Addressing Inappropriate Behaviors by Patients	6
Integrating Women’s Health Education into the Internal Medicine Residency Program Curriculum	6
National Estimates of Noncanine Bite and Sting Injuries Treated in US Hospital Emergency Departments, 2011–2015	6
How Do Healthcare Executives Understand and Make Decisions about Spiritual Care Provision?	6
COVID-19 Pandemic Origins: Bioweapons and the History of Laboratory Leaks	6
Lower Intent to Comply with COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations Correlates to Higher Disease Burden in Following 30 Days	6
Red Meat Allergies after Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Bites	6
Nationwide Trends in Prevalent Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diseases in Young Adults: Differences by Sex and Race and In-Hospital Outcomes	6
Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Telehealth Patterns in Primary Care, Mental Health, and Specialty Care Facilities in Texas	5
Association between Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Lung Cancer	5
Outcomes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Improve with Obesity: A Rural Appalachian Experience	5
Implementation and Assessment of a Pharmacy-Led Inpatient Transitions of Care Program	5
Retaining Faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Academic Medicine: Results from a Needs Assessment	5
Transgender-Competent Health Care: Lessons from the Community	5
COVID-19 in a Mississippi Community Hospital	5
Association of the All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality Classification with Outcomes	5
National Resident Matching Program Rank Order and Performance in an Internal Medicine Residency	5
Pediatric Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Barriers to Firearms Safety Counseling	5
Narrative Medicine Rounds: Promoting Student Well-Being during the Third Year of Medical School	5
A Multicenter Curricular Intervention to Address Resident Knowledge and Perceptions of Personal Finance	5
Proportion and Characterization of Co-infections of HIV and Hepatitis C or Hepatitis B among People with HIV in Alabama, 2007–2016	5
Analysis of the Effects of a Texas State-Wide Mask Mandate (Executive Order GA-29) on Case Load, Hospitalizations, and Mortality	5
Battlefield Acupuncture as a Treatment for Pain	5
Neurocognitive Rehabilitation in COVID-19 Patients: A Clinical Review	5
Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the Practice of Otolaryngology	4
Comparison between Rural and Urban Appalachian Children in Hospice Care	4
An Epidemic Supplanted by a Pandemic: Vaping-Related Illness and COVID-19	4
Walking Speed and Mortality: An Updated Systematic Review	4
Fatal and Nonfatal Snakebite Injuries Reported in the United States	4
A Comprehensive Review of COVID-19–Associated Endocrine Manifestations	4
Physicians’ Total Burden of Occupational Stressors: More than Threefold Increased Odds of Burnout	4
Moral Elevation, Physician Role Models, and Selected Markers of Professional Identity Formation and Well-Being: A Secondary Analysis from Two National Surveys	4
Pregnancy Risk Screening and Counseling for Women Veterans: Piloting the One Key Question in the Veterans Healthcare Administration	4
Evidence for Prophylactic Transfusion during Pregnancy for Women with Sickle Cell Disease	4
Impact of Obesity in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure: A Nationwide Cohort Study	4
Prevalence of Novel Pedagogical Methods in the Radiology Education of Medical Students	4
Characteristics and Outcomes Based on Perceived Illness Severity in SARS-CoV-2	4
Medical Education and the Ethics of Self-Care: A Survey of Medical Students Regarding Professional Challenges and Expectations for Living Healthy Lifestyles	4
College Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about the 2017–2018 H3N2 Influenza Virus and Vaccination	4
Eligible Prescriber Experiences with Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Perceptions of Pharmacy Barriers to Buprenorphine	4
Forgone Care among LGBTQ and Non-LGBTQ Americans during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Health, Social Support, and Pandemic-Related Stress	4
COVID-19-Related Stress on Physicians	4
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Preoperative Vedolizumab and Postoperative Complications in Patients with IBD	4
Best Practices for Survey Use in Medical Education: How to Design, Refine, and Administer High-Quality Surveys	4
Frequency of Animal Leptospirosis in the Southern United States and the Implications for Human Health	4
Impact of Depressive Symptomology on Pain and Function during Recovery after Total Joint Arthroplasty	3
Midnight Report: A Novel Faculty-Guided Night Curriculum to Enhance Resident Nighttime Education	3
A Narrative Review of the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy	3
Adapting Existing Resources for Serious Illness Communication Skills Training for Internal Medicine Residents	3
Loss of Meaning at Work Associated with Burnout Risk in Academic Medicine	3

Effect of Payor-Mandated Review of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program on Opioid Prescriber Rates	3
The Doctors in the House: Examining Physician Legislators in the US Congress from 2011 to 2020	3
Factors Associated with Colorectal Cancer Screening among Mississippi Adults: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	3
Osteoporosis in Adult Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Special Considerations for Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management	3
A Narrative Review of Medical Interpretation Services and their Effect on the Quality of Health Care	3
Perceived Barriers to Contraceptive Access and Acceptance among Reproductive-Age Women Receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy in Northeast Tennessee	3
Assessing Medical Students’ Comfort with Telemedicine	3
Prevention of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in an Outpatient Prenatal Buprenorphine Tapering Program	3
Health Disparities of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Texas, March–July 2020	3
Attended Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Versus Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in a Primary Healthcare Setting in Chile	3
Negative Healthcare Experiences, Healthcare-Seeking Behavior, and Mental Health in Tampa Bay Area Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Individuals	3
Salary Disparities in Academic Urogynecology: Despite Increased Transparency, Men Still Earn More Than Women	3
Blending Virtual and In-Person Simulation Encounters to Teach Clinical Skills to Preclerkship Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors, Perceived COVID-19 Risk, and Engagement with Health Protective Behaviors	3
COVID-19 Legacy	3
Patient and Hospital Characteristics of Newborns with Neonatal Withdrawal Syndrome	3
Perceptions, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health of Residents during COVID-19	3
Improving Fecal Immunochemical Testing Rates for Colon Cancer Screening in the Outpatient Setting	3
Physicians’ Role in the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Reflection	3
Pathophysiology and Management of Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema in Patients with Acute Severe Brain Injury	3
Investigating Barriers to Completion of Postpartum Tubal Ligation: A Retrospective Chart Review	3
Responding to COVID-19: Perspectives on Curricular Changes in a Rural Medical School	3
Evaluating a Blended Learning Model for Medical Student ECG Teaching	3
Moral Dilemma of a Physician and Mother in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Do Interviews Really Matter in Generating Programs and Applicants’ Rank Lists for the Match?	3
A Letter to My Future Self: A Student and an Educator’s Experiences with Future-Oriented Reflection in Medical Education	3
Association of the US COVID-19 Pandemic and Attenuated Influenza Detection	3
A Retrospective Study of Students Referred to a Psychiatric Clinic at a College Counseling Center in Appalachia	3
Cystic Fibrosis and COVID-19	3
Remdesivir-Induced Bradycardia	3
Initial Institutional Experience with 18F-Fluciclovine PET-CT in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer	3
Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Young Adolescents: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988–2016	3
Evaluation of the Effect of Biochemistry Parameters on the Clinical Course in COVID-19 Patients Who Received Tocilizumab Treatment	3
Gynecological Care and Contraception Considerations in Women with Cerebral Palsy	2
An Approach to Gynecomastia in Primary Care Clinics	2
Opioid Use Among HIV-Positive Pregnant Women and the Risk for Maternal–Fetal Complications	2
Comparison of Robotic and Laparoscopic Colectomies Using the 2019 ACS NSQIP Database	2
A Population-Based Study of Factors Associated with Postpartum Contraceptive Use by Birth Interval Length	2
Assessment of Written Feedback for Emergency Medicine Residents	2
Webinars and Continuing Medical Education: Pros, Cons, and Controversies	2
Important Advances in Pediatric Injury Prevention	2
SMA’s 2020 Southern Regional Assembly Abstract Presentations	2
Geographic Variations of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Late-Stage Diagnosis of Childhood Cancer in Texas	2
Characterization of Clinical Skills Remediation: A National Survey of Medical Schools	2
Grit Does Not Predict Burnout among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents	2
Fibrin-Associated Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Found on Revision Arthroplasty of the Knee	2
Knowledge of Teenagers and Young Adults about COVID-19 and Compliance with Social Distancing Guidelines	2
Segmental Withdrawal During Screening Colonoscopy Does Not Increase Adenoma Detection Rate	2
Association of Prepregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Child Birth Weight with Metabolic Dysfunction in Children and Adolescents with Obesity	2
Efficacy and Safety of Nonvitamin K Oral Anticoagulants following Cardiac Valve Replacement	2
Implications of Frailty among Men with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators	2
Navigating Scope of Practice Tensions	2
A Game Show–Based Curriculum for Teaching Principles of Reproductive Infectious Disease (GBS PRIDE Trial)	2
The Safe Discharge Checklist: A Standardized Discharge Planning Curriculum for Medicine Trainees	2
Osteoporosis Management Strategies in the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Bioactive Knee Sleeve for Osteoarthritis: A Small Cohort Study	2
Impact of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders on Nursing Clinical Decision Making	2
Frequency of Care Fragmentation and Its Impact on Outcomes in Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis in a Nationally Representative Sample	2
Stigma, Social Support, and Substance Use in Diverse Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women Living with HIV in the US Southeast	2
COVID-19 Trials: Who Participates and Who Benefits?	2
Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease: An Update on Diagnosis and Management	2
Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment among COVID-19 Patients Using Different Scores	2
Impact of Policy Change on Access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care	2
Association of Hypertension and Hyperthyroidism in a Subspecialty Clinic and a National Database	2
Enhancing Patient–Provider Breastfeeding Conversations: Breastfeeding Intention and Prenatal Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy among a Sample of Pregnant Women	2
Pivoting during a Pandemic: Reimagining Intern Orientation EPA-Based OSCE	2
Does Formal Training in Medical Education and Professional Development Lead to Better Career Outcomes for Clinician Educators?	2
Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Late-State, Severe COVID-19 Infection	2
Travel Histories in Children: How Well Do Interns and Medical Students Do?	2
Vaccination of Children in the United States against COVID-19: An Ounce of Prevention	2
Sugammadex Reduces PACU Recovery Time after Abdominal Surgery Compared with Neostigmine	2
Safety of Recombinant Zoster Vaccine in Rheumatology Patients	2
Acknowledging and Addressing COVID-19 Health Disparities in the American South	2
A Robust Faculty Development Program for Medical Educators: A Decade of Experience	2
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Pulmonary Toxicity: A Comprehensive Review, Part II	2
Correlation of Population Factors, Compliance with Masking and Social Distance, Vaccination, and COVID-19 Infection in Central Appalachia	2
Preparing Residents to Respond to Incidences of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment: An Interactive Workshop	2
Clinical Outcomes of Noninvasive Ventilation in Asthma, Bronchiectasis, and Other COPD	2
Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers in Rural Appalachia	2
Rethinking the International Response System to Global Health Threats: Strengthening International Collaboration to Ensure Vaccine Equity and Combat Vaccination Hesitancy	2