Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
Medical stereotypes that must be shaken and stirred	649
Vaccinating children against Covid: the elusive goal of herd immunity	104
99.53% and the history of probability	65
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	58
Death Notices	53
Death Notices	48
Who makes a good leader?	40
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm	37
From JRSM Open	35
COVID-19 and herd immunity	34
The unwanted legacies of COVID-19	32
Medicolegal consequences of altered COVID-19 vaccine administration	27
Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement	25
Death Notices	24
Why RECOVERY is a milestone in medical research	24
RETRACTED: Adverse events after first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination in England: a national vaccine surveillance platform self-controlled case series study	22
Building back better, fairer, greener	22
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard	19
The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double-blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 1: angina relief and suggestion	18
Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study	18
Better digital health data should be the foundation to transform outpatient consultations for people living with long-term conditions	18
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A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	16
From JRSM Open	15
Purpose and limitations of carbon footprinting for healthcare	15

English parallels to socialism: 1984–2024	14
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	14
From JRSM Open	14
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records	14
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	12
How to advocate for vulnerable groups	11
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	11
Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	11
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The Sovietisation of British medicine	10
Advocate or not to advocate: what is the point?	10
From JRSM Open	10
Reflections on translating passages on ‘empirical’ and ‘dogmatic’ medicine in Celsus’s De medicina. Part 1	10
Reports of randomised control trials should begin and conclude with up-to-date systematic reviews of other relevant trials: a 25-year audit of the quality of trial reports	9
Ethical versus psychological issues in paediatric organ donation: an analysis of UK and Swiss practice	9
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Human, all too human – why artificial intelligence cannot “author” papers	8
What’s medicine for?	8
Shakespeare’s empathy: enhancing connection in the patient–doctor relationship in times of crisis	8
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	8
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Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis	8
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	7
Temporal and geographical variation in low carbon inhaler dispensing in England, 2016 to 2021: an ecological study	7
Should we be so radical as to overlook facts?	7
Death Notices	7
Trusting in lived experience	7
From JRSM Open	7
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Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?	7
The best and worst of role models across the generations	6
The RECOVERY trial platform: a milestone in the development and execution of treatment evaluation during an epidemic	6
ABO blood group associated with cerebral venous thrombosis after Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: a case–control study	6
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	6
Trust in healthcare	6
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study	6
Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes	6
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	5
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.3: descriptions of effects should clearly reflect the size of the effects	5
From JRSM Open	5
Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID Registry	5
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From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors	5
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Why do doctors make poor decisions? Spotlighting ‘noise’ as an under-recognised source of error in clinical practice	5
From JRSM Open	5
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises	5
International medical graduates	5
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	5
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	5

Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	5
Falling down the global ranks: life expectancy in the UK, 1952–2021	4
Healing the schism: epidemiology, medicine and the public’s health	4
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	4
Death Notices	4
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Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Authors' reply, naturalistic outcomes paper	4
A world class health service in the quality of staff and cost effectiveness	4
COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in people with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 4 million people	4
Ethnic differences in success at application for consultant posts among United Kingdom physicians from 2011 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study	4
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GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	3
MacLean 1818: comparing like with like and recognising ethical double standards in therapeutic experimentation	3
From JRSM Open	3
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award	3
Carl Liebermeister and the emergence of modern medical statistics, Part 1: his remarkable work in historical context	3
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland	3
Death Notices	3
The Sovietisation of British medicine	3
The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study	3
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Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	3
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis	3
Why a medical student’s learning environment matters: the enabling effect of supportive social climates	3
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Death Notices	3
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Calling the end of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Death Notices	3
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Death Notices	3
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?	3
Death Notices	3
Food in Daniel 1:1-16: the first report of a controlled experiment?	3
How can we address the ever-pressing need to ‘green up’ surgical practice in the National Health Service?	3
Death Notices	3
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry	3
Moral distress and the importance of data	3
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’	3
Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study	2
The true meaning of DICE: don’t ignore chance effects	2
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The path for medical associations to sponsor trustworthy guidelines: is it feasible?	2
From JRSM Open	2
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‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’	2
What does medical professionalism mean?	2
Leveraging the bi-directional links between health and education to promote long-term resilience and equality	2
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Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	2
From JRSM Open	2
From JRSM Open	2
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?	2
SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 77,587 healthcare workers: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, United Kingdom, April to November 2020	2
Harnessing international collaboration in the space sector to innovate healthcare	2
If in doubt, think patient	2
Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	2
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	2
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	2
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When is a screening test not a screening test?	2
From JRSM Open	2
Intensive versus standard blood pressure control in older persons with or without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	2
Reporting and representation of underserved groups in intervention studies for patients with multiple long-term conditions: a systematic review	2
Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study	2
From JRSM Open	2
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	2
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care	2
Re-exploring the nexus between the health and education systems in the time of COVID-19	2
The continuing relevance of Shakespeare today	1
Death Notices	1
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Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.2: Seemingly logical assumptions about research can be misleading	1
CFS patients remain severely disabled after specialist treatment with CBT in the UK	1
Robot doctors on the front line	1
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective	1
Is the 1948 model of access to free healthcare still appropriate today?	1
James Lind at Haslar Hospital 1758–1774: a methodological theorist	1
From JRSM Open	1

Drivers and barriers to engaging with academia: a minority-ethnic medical student perspective	1
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	1
Machine learning-driven critical care decision making	1
Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study	1
John Keats: the mystery years	1
Sacred images of the West and alleviation of pain: belief, placebo and harnessing hope	1
Death Notices	1
Medicine’s social contract	1
What do you need to be a scholar? And why?	1
Death Notices	1
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	1
The differences and overlaps between ‘explanatory’ and ‘pragmatic’ controlled trials: a historical perspective	1
COVID-19 and the Liverpool influenza epidemic of 1950	1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	1
An assault upon women: reproductive rights in the US in the shadow of the 2022 US Supreme Court Ruling (the Dobbs ruling)	1
Social inequalities and extreme vulnerability of children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Diagnosis and management of monkeypox in primary care	1
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia	1
Beyond government accountability: the role of medical schools in addressing the NHS workforce crisis	1
The value of supporting women’s rights	1
The urgent responsibility to confront psychiatric abuses and defend ethical principles in a turbulent world	1
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Teachers: the forgotten health workforce	1
From JRSM Open	1
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	1
Doctors should do history of medicine… properly	1
The Medical Training Initiative: much more than learn, earn and return	1
Sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists treatment: variable observations of sequelae on diabetic retinopathy	1
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From JRSM Open	1
Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories	1
Response to ‘When is a screening test not a screening test?’	1
Death Notices	1
Veterinary intelligence: integrating zoonotic threats into global health security	1
Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health	1
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	1
From JRSM Open	1
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT	1
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.2: reviews of the effects of treatments should be fair	1
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The (Harry) Gold standard: angina, suggestion and the path to the ‘double blind’ test and clinical pharmacology. Part 2: the path to the ‘double blind’	1
Heresy, witchcraft, Jean Gerson, scepticism and the use of placebo controls	1
From JRSM Open	1
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Intersecting barriers to pursuing clinical academia	1
From JRSM Open	1
Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis	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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Registration of essential medicines in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: a retrospective analysis	1
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure	1
Are we selecting the right medical students?	1
Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study	1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	1
Key sociological concepts for medicine: standardisation and medicine	1
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review	0
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From JRSM Open	0
From JRSM Open	0
Underpowered trials at trial start and informed consent: action is needed beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	0
The Women’s Soccer World Cup Final 2023: gender equity and alcohol promotion	0
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	0
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism	0
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	0
From JRSM Open	0
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	0
From JRSM Open	0
Single research ethics committee review for multinational trials is a misconception	0
COVID-19 and the inequalities industry	0
Should vaccination for healthcare workers be mandatory?	0
Death Notices	0
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	0
We still know little about long COVID	0
Death Notices	0
From JRSM Open	0
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To book online and for more information on upcoming events please visit www.rsm.ac.uk	0
A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health	0
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots	0
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	0
Africa, climate change and the markets	0
Death Notices	0
The myths of NHS privatisation: a commentary on factoids, policy zombies and category errors	0
The COVID-19 pandemic: the third wave?	0
SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity	0
From JRSM Open	0
Prioritising health and wellbeing: the hope we cling to in 2021	0
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway	0
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree	0
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading	0
Death Notices	0
The dilemmas of investing in health and humanity	0
Compassion fatigue: result or cause of burnout? And do doctors get it?	0
Death Notices	0