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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Undiagnosed HIV in Patients on Immunosuppressive Medications Presenting with HIV-Associated Kidney Disease	36
Optimal Treatment for Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction	22
Optimizing the Dermatologic Formulary at a Free Clinic	16
An Electronic Medical Record Pocket Guide for Incoming Internal Medicine Interns: Perceptions and Impact on Patient Information Gathering	14
Risk Factors and Surgical Outcomes of Older Adult Patients Undergoing a Whipple Procedure	13
SMA’s 2nd Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	13
Matching Against Men: 5 Years of Residency Match Data Show Disparities Still Exist	10
Effect of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor Use on Time to HIV Viral Suppression before Delivery	8
SMA’s 5th Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference Abstract Presentations	8
Pediatric Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Barriers to Firearms Safety Counseling	8
Intimate Partner Violence: Physicians Must Address Physical and Mental Health Harms	8
Early Performance of the Patients Over Paperwork Initiative among Family Medicine Physicians	8
An Epidemic Supplanted by a Pandemic: Vaping-Related Illness and COVID-19	8
Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record Alert to Improve Screening and Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Factors in a High-Risk Population	8
Impact of School-Enforced Step 1 Deadlines on Medical Student Well-Being and Failure Rates: Two Medical Students’ Perspective	8
Extensions of Preventive Health in Addition to the Healthcare Provider	8
Providing Structured Real-Time Feedback on Postdischarge Outcomes Using Electronic Health Record Data	8
Firearm Shootings: A Serious Public Health Issue	7
Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors, Perceived COVID-19 Risk, and Engagement with Health Protective Behaviors	7
Distinguishing Therapeutic Misconception from Religious Belief	7
Maternal and Infant Outcomes in a Subset of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in South Carolina	7
Moral Elevation, Physician Role Models, and Selected Markers of Professional Identity Formation and Well-Being: A Secondary Analysis from Two National Surveys	7
Pregnancy-Associated Diabetes Mellitus and Stillbirths by Race and Ethnicity among Hospitalized Pregnant Women in the United States	6
Inattentional Blindness as an Underappreciated Emphasis in Patient Safety Education: Need for Greater Recognition in Medical and Surgical Training	6
Assessing the Knowledge and Comfort Level of US Family Medicine Residents Regarding Consenting and Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care	5

Time to Hip Fracture Surgery and Mortality	5
Falls from Tree Stands Have Become the Leading Cause of Deer Hunting Accidents in Pennsylvania	5
When Suicidality Is Suspected	5
Contraception Use and Pregnancy Outcomes for Alabama Medicaid Enrollees: A Baseline Analysis Using 2012–2017 Data	5
Increasing Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Older Adults	5
Exploring Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Geriatric Patients: A Needs Assessment: Erratum	5
Readmission Risk after COVID-19 Hospitalization: A Moderation Analysis by Vital Signs	5
Procedural Decision Making by Hospitalists: The Need for a Team Approach	5
Neighborhood Ecologies, Cases, and Deaths during the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Current and Future Epidemics?	5
On Aristotle and Upper Leveling	5
Why Is US Health Care Failing? Some Reasons Are Obvious, but Fixes Are Harder	5
How Student and Faculty Perceptions Differ on the Stressors that Medical Students Face	5
Facilitating the Advance Care Planning Conversation with Patients: An Interactive Virtual 1.5-Hour Session	5
Investigating the Relation between Electronic Cigarette Use and Sleep Duration in Kentucky Using the BRFSS, 2016–2017	5
Analysis of the Effects of a Texas State-Wide Mask Mandate (Executive Order GA-29) on Case Load, Hospitalizations, and Mortality	5
Telemedicine: Raising the Bar or Crouching Beneath It?	5
Safety of Nonvitamin K Antagonists Compared with Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and End-Stage Kidney Disease	5
Recent Trends and Challenges in Employment for Emergency Medicine Trainees: A Survey of Graduating Residents’ Perspectives	5
Influence of Cultural Values and Integrational Acculturation Differences on the Behavioral Health Treatment of Asian American Immigrant Children in the COVID-19 Era	5
Developing the Good Physician: The Influence of Role Models in the Development of Virtues and Flourishing in Medical Students	4
Telemetry Overuse and the Effect of Educational and Electronic Health Record-Based Interventions on an Academic Internal Medicine Ward	4
Physicians’ Role in the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Reflection	4
Do We Know Where They Go? Obtaining Travel History in Pediatric Patients	4
Evaluation of a Multifaceted Protocol in Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry Monitoring across a Large Healthcare System	4
Cancer Screening Prevalence and Preference among Hospitalized Women With and Without Obesity	4
The Safe Discharge Checklist: A Standardized Discharge Planning Curriculum for Medicine Trainees	4
Rise in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Rate Is Associated with Increase in Buprenorphine Prescription Numbers	4
Novel Innovation Curriculum in Internal Medicine Residency Training	4
Aortic Stenosis Associated with an Increase in Mortality in Surgical Hip Fracture Patients	4
ICU-Broncho-Aspiration Protocols Monitoring at an Academic Health Network System	4
Effect of Delirium on Interhospital Transfer Outcomes	4
SMA’s 2023 Annual Scientific Assembly Abstract Presentations	4
Online Interest in Colorectal Cancer Screening in Florida	4
A Breathtaking Introduction to Medical School	4
Factors Affecting Neurological Presentation and Severity in Pediatric Off-Highway Vehicle Accidents in Texas	4
Rethinking the International Response System to Global Health Threats: Strengthening International Collaboration to Ensure Vaccine Equity and Combat Vaccination Hesitancy	4
A Survey of Louisiana Pediatricians’ Approach to Parenting Teens and Adolescent Reproductive Health	4
Perceptions of Gender Stereotypes among Women Residents in Surgical and Nonsurgical Specialties	4
Measures of Frailty in Homebound Older Adults	3
A Primary Care Approach to Visual Screening in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	3
Characteristics of a Southern Intensive Trauma- and Psychiatric-Focused Recovery Program	3
Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Provider Onboarding and Development Program	3
Association between Body Composition Parameters and Heart Rate in a Sample of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa	3
Commentary on “Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Late-State, Severe COVID-19 Infection”	3
Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning	3
Characteristics of Sports-Related Injuries Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department	3
Fit Testing Failure of Reprocessed “Duckbill”-Type N95 Masks	3
Barriers to Mental Health Care Identified by Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals in Georgia and South Carolina	3
Important Advances in Pediatric Injury Prevention	3
On “Percentage of Black Population and Primary Care Shortage Areas Associated with Higher COVID-19 Case and Death Rates in Georgia Counties”	3

Extended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis after Robotic Staging for Endometrial Cancer	3
Surging Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis from 2000–2022: A National Database Study	3
Optimizing Patient Experience to Improve Physician Survey Scores	3
Do Interviews Really Matter in Generating Programs and Applicants’ Rank Lists for the Match?	3
Oxygen Supplementation in COPD Exacerbation with Hypoxia and Hypercapnia: What Does the Evidence Show?	3
On the Tip of Our Tongue: Sublingual Cyclobenzaprine and Fibromyalgia	3
Use of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Asthma	3
Special Emphasis on the Opioid/Substance Abuse Crisis	3
Association between Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Lung Cancer	3
Patient Self-Reported Allergies and Their Correlation with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Outcomes	3
Clinical Outcomes of Noninvasive Ventilation in Asthma, Bronchiectasis, and Other COPD: Erratum	3
Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in US Adults with and without Heart Failure: 2007–2018 NHANES	3
Guidelines Could Reduce Opioid Prescribing for Uncomplicated Distal Radius Fractures	3
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis	3
On “Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource”	3
Androgen Deprivation Therapy/Androgen Receptor Signaling Inhibitor Treatments for Prostate Cancer: Pathophysiology and Review of Effects on Cardiovascular Disease	3
Annual FEV1 Loss in Patients with Noncystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis and Affecting Factors	3
Exploration of the Intersection between Infant Feeding and Postpartum Contraception in Western North Carolina: Perspectives of Postpartum Individuals and Providers	3
Community Outreach: A Strategy to Increase Recruitment of Latinx Medical Students into Otolaryngology	3
Patient Experiences at California Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Online Crowd-Sourced Reviews, 2010–2019	3
Lymphedema Awareness and Experience in the Turner Syndrome Community	3
White Blood Counts of Hospitalized Patients Without Infection, Malignancy, or Immune Dysfunction	3
An Approach to Gynecomastia in Primary Care Clinics	3
Unresolvable Moral Disagreements and the Ethical Integrity of the Medical Profession	2
Evaluation of an Internal Medicine Transition to Residency Course	2
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Settings: Presentation, Clinical Strategies, and Application of the Double Empathy Problem	2
Secondary Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnancy Intention	2
To Inform, Recommend, and Sometimes Persuade: The Ethics of Physician Influence in Shared Decision Making	2
Diagnosis of Gout as a Correlative Risk for Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors	2
Health Disparities of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Texas, March–July 2020	2
Student Clinical Experiences in Cross-Cultural Education	2
Discrepancies in Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity in COVID-19 Patients Receiving Casirivimab and Imdevimab	2
Medications That May be Contributing to Your Patient’s Weight Gain	2
Sociodemographic Characteristics of HIV-Associated Dementia in the South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Registry	2
Comparative Analysis of Costs of Caring for Inpatient COVID-19 Patients and Non-COVID-19 Patients at One Academic Center	2
Religion/Spirituality Curriculum in US Osteopathic Medical Schools: A Survey	2
Enhanced Notification of Radiographic Incidental Findings in Trauma Does Not Guarantee Follow-Up Compliance	2
Fibrin-Associated Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Found on Revision Arthroplasty of the Knee	2
“I’m Not Good with Money” and Other Lies Residents Tell Themselves about Personal Finance	2
Retaining Faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Academic Medicine: Results from a Needs Assessment	2
Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound–Guided Mediastinal Lymph Node Transbronchial Forceps Biopsies (EBUS-TBFB)	2
Physician Leader, Humble Thyself: Balancing Narcissism and Humility in Healthcare Leadership	2
Comparison of the Usability and Reliability of Answers to Clinical Questions: AI-Generated ChatGPT versus a Human-Authored Resource	2
National Resident Matching Program Rank Order and Performance in an Internal Medicine Residency	2
Association between Opioids Prescribed to Medical Inpatients with Pain and Long-Term Opioid Use	2
Vessel Sealant Devices in Thyroidectomies: An ACS-NSQIP Study	2
Where Are Future Doctors Who Southern Rural African Americans Will Trust? A Look Back into Rural Medical Scholars Data	2
Retrospective Analysis of Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist Therapy	2
Blending Virtual and In-Person Simulation Encounters to Teach Clinical Skills to Preclerkship Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Proportion and Characterization of Co-infections of HIV and Hepatitis C or Hepatitis B among People with HIV in Alabama, 2007–2016 - Erratum	2
Social Determinants’ Role in Pediatric Respiratory Health: Health Insights from Central Florida	2
Evaluation of a Puberty Education Program for Girls and Their Caregivers in Arkansas	2
Let the Program Evaluation Committee SOAR: Applying the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) Framework for Program Evaluation	2
Value of Troponin in Predicting Hospital Mortality of Older Adult Patients without Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes	2
Using Community Paramedicine to Treat Hepatitis C Virus in Upstate South Carolina	2
Commentary on “Rethinking the International Response System to Global Health Threats: Strengthening International Collaboration to Ensure Vaccine Equity and Combat Vaccination Hesitancy”	2
Could Clinician Sensitivity to Cultural and Historical Considerations Help Reduce COVID-19 Deaths among Blacks?	2
Effects of Preoperative COVID-19 Status on Emergent or Urgent Colectomy Outcomes	2
Know Your Guidelines: American Journal of Gastroenterology Clinical Guidelines on Acute Liver Failure	2
How Food Insecurity and Financial Difficulty Relate to Emotional Well-Being and Social Functioning	2
Role of hs-CRP in Post-MI Sequelae: Insights into Mechanisms and Clinical Significance	2
Perceived Value of a Women’s Health Journal Club in Rural Hawai‘i	2
Injuries Related to Nonpowder Firearms: A National Database Study	2
Evaluation of the Effect of Biochemistry Parameters on the Clinical Course in COVID-19 Patients Who Received Tocilizumab Treatment	2
Impact of Patient Demographics on Student-Led Patient Navigation Outcomes: A Study of a South Florida Medical School’s Patient Navigation Program	2
Screening Echocardiography in Adults with Down Syndrome	2
Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Hospital at Home in Patients with COVID-19	2
Opioid Use Disorder and Pharmacological Treatment in Southwestern North Carolina: NC SID Database 2000–2020	2