Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article	Citations
Why are medicine’s leaders missing in action?	95
From JRSM Open	85
Death Notices	72
How to advocate for vulnerable groups	54
International medical graduates	50
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Learning the craft – own experience	41
Certainty is an illusion: lessons for palliative care	33
A multivariate analysis to identify the relationship between sociodemographic differences and examination performance in UK postgraduate medical examinations	33
Using recruitment data instead of national population ethnicity proportions in clinical trial preparation may introduce bias	30
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From JRSM Open	25
Solutions to end pandemic and opioid crises	23
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair	20
CORRIGENDUM to ‘British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries’	20
The value of a good doctor	19
Why I believe that all eligible NHS staff in the UK deserve a Long Service Award	19
What is presentation? Why do we do it? Who is it for? How to do it?	19
Death Notices	18
Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective	18
Post-trial provisions in the Declaration of Helsinki: a watered-down principle that needs to be strengthened	18
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John Keats: the mystery years	16
Planning for end of life in the past and present: historical, legal and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT	15
A global crisis of trust that’s a symptom of global failure	15

The National Clinical Impact Awards: cosmetic change or fundamental reform?	13
Pickles of Wensleydale revisited in the light of the COVID pandemic	12
Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research	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
Building on the success of the Medical Training Initiative	12
Helping our aspiring medics make an informed decision	11
From Elvis to Sinead O’Connor: 50 years of drugs, rock and roll and premature death	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
Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?	11
Death Notices	11
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Resources and patience run thin in Sovietised NHS	10
Policies on doctors’ declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis	10
Large language models will not replace healthcare professionals: curbing popular fears and hype	10
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	10
How to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace?	10
Planning for the emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2: addressing revaccination delivery bottlenecks	10
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
The development of network meta-analysis	10
From JRSM Open	10
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.2: expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages	9
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’	9
Rigour and science in drug regulatory approval	9
Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.4: descriptions of effects should reflect the risk of being misled by the play of chance	9
Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940): Swiss surgical innovator	8
Death Notices	8
Medicine: the pursuit of understanding	8
Paul Owren, Christopher Bjerkelund and the dawn of controlled trials in Norway	8
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Keeping patients at the centre of simulation-based education	7
History of clinical trials for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Part 1: early ‘translational’ work and observational and non-randomised studies	7
Forgetting is the clinical skill that separates human doctors from AI	7
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	7
Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.4: trust based on the source of a claim alone can be misleading	6
From JRSM Open	6
Death Notices	6
Drift and doom: from workforce to the climate crisis	6
From JRSM Open	6
Death Notices	6
Death Notices	6
Healthcare and feminism	6
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From JRSM Open	5
Death Notices	5
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Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 1	5
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 1	5
Important public health messages to avert a UK opioid crisis	5
Death Notices	5
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	5

The unsolved complexities inherent in informed patient choice	5
John Clark 1780 and 1792: learning from properly kept records	5
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: an ambitious leap or a misstep?	5
In support of ‘Addressing visa inequities in health: a geopsychiatry perspective’	5
From JRSM Open	5
Death Notices	5
Long term sequelae of COVID-19: new data	4
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Death Notices	4
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Prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in England: a whole population study of over 60 million people	4
Death Notices	4
From JRSM Open	4
Surgeon robots and safe anaesthesia	4
GPs finally challenge authority of Royal College of Surgeons	4
150,000 COVID-19 deaths: the price of intransigence	3
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Adolf Bingel (1879–1953), a member of the last generation of general internal physicians in Germany	3
From JRSM Open	3
James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice	3
Surgeons, anaesthetic assistants and robots	3
Why workforce health should have a place in UK care reform	3
Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?	3
GPT-4: the future of artificial intelligence in medical school assessments	3
Cross-sectoral primary care-based approaches to reducing suicides in England	3
Shenanigans in the deadhouse	3
Developing a shared definition of self-driven healthcare to enhance the current healthcare delivery paradigm	3
An early 20th century handbook on ‘meta-analysis’: David Brunt’s The Combination of Observations	3
Death Notices	3
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Is an independent NHS an impossible dream?	3
Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages ‘right’	3
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Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: medical conspiracy theories	3
Key sociological concepts for medicine: risk, medicine and pandemics	3
Death Notices	3
Africa, climate change and the markets	3
Rightsizing hospitals: Wanless revisited	3
Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom	3
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Non-training grades in the NHS workforce: the lost tribe?	2
How does mortality compare between different countries/regions of birth for the population of England and Wales, 2007 to 2021? A descriptive, observational study	2
Doctor Who? Honorific titles and their influence on patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionals	2
From JRSM Open	2
Lessons from the pandemic: the award of honours	2
99.53% and the history of probability	2
Death Notices	2
What’s medicine for?	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
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on clinical outcomes in a prospective cohort study of hospitalised adults	2
Social care need in multimorbidity	2
Unheard voices in medicine that must be heard	2
The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review	2
Medical education at the crossroads. Part II: postgraduate training and the future of clinical expertise	2
There is nothing medically magical about machine learning	2
Death Notices	2
A multi-centre prospective cohort study of patients on the elective waiting list for cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
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COVID-19 and herd immunity	2
Trusting in lived experience	2
Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: evidence should be relevant	2
From JRSM Open	2
‘Quiet quitting’ among medical practitioners: a hallmark of burnout, disillusionment and cynicism	2
Quiet quitting and medical education disruption: lessons from South Korea	2
General practitioner workforce stability as a social determinant of health	2
Autocracy, medicine and health in the 21st century	2
Why is there an alarming rise in decomposing bodies?	2
Is there a case for independent expert witnesses?	2
Disastrous decline of the healthcare system in Lebanon	2
Vaccination against COVID-19 and the limitations of sanitary science	2
From JRSM Open	2
Doctors: advocates for good and accelerators of harm	2
European international medical graduates (IMGs): are we ignoring their needs and under-representing the scale of IMG issues in the UK?	2
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Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness	1
Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update	1
A healing challenge: examining NHS staff sickness absence rates	1
Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned	1
Learning the craft – general practice stories	1

Are we selecting the right medical students?	1
Leslie Hore-Belisha and Lord Woolton: public health heroes with lessons for today’s crises	1
Death Notices	1
Is the NHS underfunded? Three approaches to answering the question	1
Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study	1
The constitution, functions and skill sets of teams	1
How doctors think about their role in transgender care: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners and endocrinologists	1
Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland	1
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Public health and the addiction industry: preying on human weakness	1
Annual review of competency progression: time for universal ‘no blame’ ARCPs?	1
Death Notices	1
Doctors working in teams	1
A decade of deprioritisation? Ethnicity and health in the 10-year NHS plan	1
Medical education at the crossroads. Part I: undergraduate education and the erosion of professional identity	1
The concentration-dependent protective effects by new generation hypoglycemic agents on delirium, depression, dementia and coma: evidence from a network meta-analysis	1
Underpowered trials at trial start and informed consent: action is needed beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Death Notices	1
How can the NHS be funded?	1
Death Notices	1
From JRSM Open	1
Association between household size and COVID-19: A UK Biobank observational study	1
Vaccination in pregnancy: the vaccine bit is easy, the behaviour is hard	1
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From JRSM Open	1
Temporal changes to adult case fatality risk of COVID-19 after vaccination in England between May 2020 and February 2022: a national surveillance study	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
‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘neurodevelopmental disorder’ – a critique of the latest socio-psychiatric ‘epidemic’	1
From JRSM Open	1
From JRSM Open	1
Death Notices	1
How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare	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
ReSPECT at the bedside – between design and reality	1
Chairing a committee for what purpose? Chairing online and conferences?	1
Implementing and evaluating co-designed change in health	1
Arts, literature, and witchcraft: medicine’s many personalities	1
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?	1
Fail to learn, learn to fail: a warning for the NHS	1
The craft of medicine	1
English parallels to socialism: 1984–2024	1
Multi-organ impairment and long COVID: a 1-year prospective, longitudinal cohort study	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
Declaration of Helsinki: a new revision at sixty years	1
Patterns of long COVID symptoms among healthcare workers in the UK and variations by sociodemographic, clinical and occupational factors: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationwide study (UK-REACH)	1
When was randomisation first used in educational research? A brief historical methodological perspective	1
The Innovative Medicines Fund: a universal model for faster and fairer access to new promising medicines or a Trojan horse for low-value creep?	1
Whether you are highly numerate, literate, or both, stay humble and read more poetry	1
Death Notices	1
It’s about time: redesigning consultation length in general practice	1
Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis	1
From JRSM Open	1
Trends and characteristics of hospitalisations from the harmful use of opioids in England between 2008 and 2018: Population-based retrospective cohort study	1
Surgeon-anatomist to robotic technician? The evolving role of the surgeon over three centuries	1
Bad decision making on Earth and in space	1
Robotic techniques benefit anaesthesia too	1
From JRSM Open	1
Death Notices	1
How I came to write papers for clinicians in the late 1980s about improving the quality of reviews	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
Global burden of malaria and neglected tropical diseases in children and adolescents, 1990–2019: a population-based, cross-sectional study	1
Trial analysis by treatment allocated or by treatment received? Origins of ‘the intention-to-treat principle’ to reduce allocation bias: Part 2	1
60th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: ethical challenges in the 10th amendment	1
The need for patient rights in AI-driven healthcare – risk-based regulation is not enough	1
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the limitations of preclinical animal research, 2000–2022: part 2	1
From JRSM Open	1
Bridging accelerated medical programmes and workforce demands: a critical evaluation of the four-year direct entry medical degree	1
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From JRSM Open	0
Death Notices	0
We still know little about long COVID	0
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Once a doctor, always a doctor	0
Failing to learn? The NHS is losing its capacity for system-wide safety investigation	0
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
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Who makes a good leader?	0
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Death Notices	0
What would Dickens have to say about COVID endemicity and herd immunity?	0
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
Death Notices	0
What makes a good doctor – and who gets to decide?	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
Death Notices	0
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Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues	0
Financial difficulty in the medical profession	0
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SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity	0
Promoting informed health choices: the long and winding road	0
Do patients matter in the age of AI?	0
From knowledge holders to knowledge brokers: reforming selection and training of doctors	0