British Journal of General Practice

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal of General Practice 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Perceptions of Risk173
Scientific reasons to question teleconsultations in expert general practice108
Yonder: Parkinson’s spouses, weight-loss surgery, pension participation, and male nurses100
Books:Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine93
Fragmented80
Corrections75
Correction66
The Aboriginal definition of health66
Author response65
Non-speculum sampling for cervical screening46
Cervical screening: the evolving landscape36
Responding to the war in Israel and Palestine36
Self-prescription35
The Health Benefits Of Universal Basic Income34
Faecal immunochemical test: challenges and opportunities for cancer diagnosis in primary care31
Introducing genetic testing with case finding for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: qualitative study of patient and health professional experience31
Primary care: the sleeping giant of research delivery28
Is general practice like guacamole … or more like Whack-A-Mole?28
Southgate’s sign28
The existentialist GP28
'The experiences, perspectives, and needs of young people who access support for mental health in primary care: a systematic review'27
Books: Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative25
An ethnography of General Practice inpatient discharge summary management for older patients25
Long COVID: playing the long game25
New NICE guidance on acne vulgaris: implications for first-line management in primary care24
GPs’ perspectives on diagnosing childhood urinary tract infections: a qualitative study24
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?23
There’s a lot to learn from Neighbour23
Television: This Is Going to Hurt23
Arwen23
Working in a refugee camp on Lesvos22
Chronic kidney disease management in primary care: challenges and possible developments22
Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice21
Delayed diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis: the crucial role of primary care — how you can make a difference21
Poem: Narrative Medicine21
Experiences of integrating social prescribing link workers into primary care in England — bolting on, fitting in, or belonging: a realist evaluation20
Helping general practice find its groove again20
Interpretation of ethnicity-specific data: increased risk versus increased utilisation19
Depression follow-up monitoring with the PHQ-9: open cluster-randomised controlled trial19
Low-dose amitriptyline for irritable bowel syndrome: a qualitative study of patients’ and GPs’ views and experiences19
TheNHS Long Term Workforce Plan: what does this mean for general practices?19
Not obsolete, yet19
Generating gender generalists18
Managing pilonidal sinus disease18
Yonder: Pre-operative anxiety, breast cancer screening, patient decision aids, and medicinal cannabis18
The Sticky Floor and the Importance of Role Models18
Books: Hags: the Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women17
Risk prediction models for symptomatic patients with bladder and kidney cancer: a systematic review17
John Diamond Did Not Battle Cancer Bravely16
Corrections16
Socioeconomic differences in help seeking for colorectal cancer symptoms during COVID-1916
Books: Zero. Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in A Post-Pandemic NHS16
Clinical prediction tools to identify patients at highest risk of myeloma in primary care16
Yonder #100: Nasal sprays, obstetric ultrasound, binge eating disorder, and emergency departments16
Yonder: Brexit, preventable hospitalisations, prescribing assessments, and doctor retention16
Migrants in vulnerable circumstances: not a quick fix15
Prophylactic macrolides for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the community: a decision for GPs15
Yonder: Online feedback, simulated telephone consultations, BMI, and grit15
Non-specific symptoms-based pathways for diagnosing less common cancers in primary care: a service evaluation15
Ramadan and women’s health15
Managing paediatric gastroenteritis in primary care: is there a role for ondansetron?15
Pandemics, climate change, and antibiotic resistance14
Antidepressants and risk of postural hypotension: a self-controlled case series study14
Symptom appraisal and help-seeking before a cancer diagnosis during pregnancy: a qualitative study14
Correction14
Identifying people at risk of rheumatoid arthritis in primary care: qualitative study14
Rethinking trust: the role of the Wise GP14
Realising the potential of home blood pressure monitoring in the community: should HBPM be the default?14
Yonder: Prescribing cascades, teacher wait time, online services for mental health conditions, and community deep vein thrombosis pathways14
A secret medicine13
Regarding general practice: an appeal to the new UK Government13
Optimising the use of the prostate-specific antigen blood test in asymptomatic men for early prostate cancer detection in primary care: report from a UK clinical consensus13
Book review:The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines13
GP workload and patient safety13
Poem: For Whom Do You Serve?12
Books:Shattered: a Memoir12
What do we want of doctors beside biomedical science?12
Strengthening general practice will help improve longevity and could reduce health inequalities12
Always winter, but never Christmas: does general practice need a magic wardrobe, or a TARDIS?12
An empathy definition at last: exposing the narcissism of small differences12
Better health for all: public health and general practice working together12
Acutely ill children, safety netting, and NHS printers12
A duty to expose: professionalism in a time of crisis12
Yonder: Frailty, gestational diabetes, shared cancer care, and Positive Health11
75 years on and it’s business as unusual11
The Last King of Scotland: using film to explore our understanding of professionalism11
Stigma: the water we swim in11
What drives the ‘sick note culture’ in the UK?11
Finding meaning in the consultation: supporting the hermeneutic window in practice11
Targeted holistic review of patients’ medicines is well overdue11
Melanoma risk assessment and management: a qualitative study among Australian GPs11
Books:Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention11
Books:Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing11
Research Paper of the Year 2021: relevant to training and beyond11
Failure to launch11
Books: Spike: the Virus v the People — the Inside Story11
Impact of a case-management intervention for reducing emergency attendance on primary care: randomised control trial11
Poems:Reflection On My Practice11
Yonder: Migrant workers, compassionate touch, puberty, and Happify10
Books:Side Effects. How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way And How We Fix It10
Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard10
Why GPs need to be involved in mental health research10
Our children are sitting ducks10
Adverse effects for patients in big group practices10
Development and external validation of a new clinical prediction model for early recognition of sepsis10
What is the essence of general practice?10
Books: The Long Covid Self-Help Guide. Practical Ways To Manage Symptoms10
Short-acting betaagonists and asthma10
Integrating public health and primary care: the response of six Asia–Pacific countries to the COVID-19 pandemic10
Recognising the value of a bunch of tulips in general practice10
Just do it! Ten easy ways to enhance empathy in the consultation9
Role of GPs in shared decision making with patients about palliative cancer treatment: a qualitative study in the Netherlands9
Inflammatory marker testing in primary care in the year before Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis: a UK population-based case–control study in patients aged ≤50 years9
Yonder: Sleep health, advanced liver disease, CombiConsultations, and #BetterHealth9
Books:Why We Get the Wrong Politicians9
Medical musings: GPs should be the orchestra9
Books:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks9
Correction9
Meeting the challenge of medical student placement capacity in primary care by rewiring later-career GPs9
A medical student’s perspective on current ‘GP bashing’: what are we signing up for?9
Readability of general practice websites and the BJGP9
Alone: General Practice9
How can we work together to keep you safe? A simple and effective intervention that can save lives9
Primary care health professionals’ approach to clinical coding: a qualitative interview study8
Seeing and hearing8
Doctor who?8
Kobayashi Maru8
Yonder: Primary aldosteronism, artificial intelligence, irritable bowel syndrome, and financial toxicity8
Perspective of Dutch healthcare professionals on care for female urinary incontinence: a mixed-methods study8
The global primary care crisis8
Flag-waving and learning to dance8
Risks of delivering care by telephone or video in general practice: review of national complaints data8
Ten things I wish I had known about academic primary care8
Managing withdrawal symptoms using tapering strips8
Continuity of care and effective clinical experience overcoming medicolegal vulnerability8
From anatomy to GP and back again: lessons from an academic full-circle8
Author response8
General practice after COVID-19: a greater role for remote patient monitoring8
GPs’ interest in integrated care for frail older adults and corresponding consulting and prescribing data: qualitative and quantitative analyses of the PAERPA integrated care project8
Effective management of male lower urinary tract symptoms in primary care8
Rational self-interest and the inverse care law: how Rawls and Nozick might have reflected on Julian Tudor Hart’s problem8
Yonder: Breastmilk expression, mild cognitive impairment, Ramadan, and 111 online — an ‘invisible service’8
How to be a triple bottom line general practice: working for profit, the people, and the planet8
Seeing the timber and the trees8
Remote by default general practice: must we, should we, dare we?8
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency8
Judgement of data saturation8
Rethinking continuity in primary care for people with mesothelioma8
Engagement with a local African-Caribbean community to explore perspectives and research priorities among Black men for prostate cancer using a co-participatory approach8
Advance care planning among older adults with a Turkish background and palliative care needs: a qualitative interview study8
Environmentally friendly inhalers: issues for the general practice consultation8
Do you still need your licence to practise? Some reflections for British GPs8
New developments and expansion of the GP in-hours syndromic surveillance system: collaboration between UKHSA and the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics Digital Hub8
‘Getting it write’ in a new era of patient online access to primary care health records8
Safety netting in the COVID-19 Clinical Assessment Service7
The role of the GP in maximising school attendance7
Yonder: Care coordination, anal cancer prevention, lay online communication, and positive body image7
Sewage in UK waters: a raw deal for wild swimmers7
Should we be advising patients to take their antihypertensives at night?7
Crisis Rescue Foundation Vaxi Taxi/health and wellbeing pop-ups project7
What can we learn from speaking to asthma patients more than once? The power of qualitative longitudinal design in primary care research7
Determinants of medical student’s perception of general practice7
Supporting people in Early Intervention in Psychosis services: the role of primary care7
Starting point for improving the approach to vertigo in primary care7
Clustering populations by health and social care with multiple long-term conditions: a cohort study — the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)7
Variation in prescription duration for long term conditions: a cohort study in English NHS primary care using OpenPrescribing7
Liver disease management as routine work in primary care: a qualitative interview study to guide implementation7
GP wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review7
A personal reflection on leadership and empowerment7
Gender incongruence in primary care: are GPs trained?7
Can remote testing for chronic kidney disease improve outcomes without widening existing health inequalities? A collaborative quality improvement project in primary care7
‘There’s never really been an opportunity’: perspectives of those with long-term conditions on advance care planning, a qualitative interview study in primary care7
Diverging at the horizon7
Team climate, job satsfaction and burnout: results from a national survey of staff in general practice in England7
The Fast Track FIT study: diagnostic accuracy of faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin in patients with suspected colorectal cancer7
Ten things I wish I had known about academic primary care7
A seven-point manifesto for upstream training in general practice7
Interpreting negative test results when assessing cancer risk in general practice7
The influence of GPs’ personal experience on perceived competence in depression management7
What interventions have addressed the inverse care law in general practice in Scotland over the last 20 years? A systematic scoping review7
Could primary care records be used to identify women at risk of perinatal anxiety? A mixed-methods study7
Fidelity to and utility of a home blood pressure self-monitoring regime in people with pre-hypertension: results from the REVERSE study7
General practice in the UK’s response to the Türkiye and Syrian earthquakes7
Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis at 506
Books: Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care: Good for the Planet, Good for Practices, Good for Patients6
Holistic management of symptomatic reflux: rising to the challenge of proton pump inhibitor overuse6
Books:John Berger: Ways of Learning6
MHRA Drug Safety Update — topical steroids6
Imaginary Medical Solutions6
Books:The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction6
The digital front door: demise of the ‘therapeutic history’?6
Role of locum GPs in antibiotic prescribing and stewardship: a mixed-methods study6
What next for COVID Oximetry and virtual ward?6
General practice in interesting times6
Where are we after a year? Providing responsive primary care for Ukrainian refugees6
Are good GPs holistic?6
Avoiding hospital admissions this winter: the challenge for general practice6
Books:How Westminster Works … And Why it Doesn’t6
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic6
Standing up for general practice6
Postural tachycardia syndrome and long COVID: an update6
‘Were you Dad’s doctor?’6
Training needs for staff providing remote services in general practice: a mixed-methods study6
A limited view of socioeconomically deprived communities6
Trust6
From mother to daughter: imparting general wisdom from a career working in general practice6
Women’s information needs around urine testing for urinary tract infections: a qualitative study5
Disease patterns in high-cost individuals with multimorbidity: a retrospective cross-sectional study in primary care5
Five stocking fillers for the woke GP5
Adverse respiratory outcomes amongst patients with resolved asthma: matched retrospective cohort study5
Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records: a qualitative study in UK primary care5
Breaking the cycle of inequalities for people with a learning disability5
Atypical melanoma: clinicopathological features and management in general practice5
Antibiotic effectiveness for children with lower respiratory infections: prospective cohort and trial in primary care5
Association between hip pain and radiographic hip osteoarthritis in primary care: the CHECK cohort5
Should I Take Aspirin? (SITA): randomised controlled trial of a decision aid for cancer chemoprevention5
GPs’ views of prescribing beta- blockers for people with anxiety disorders: a qualitative study5
Primary care consultation patterns before suicide: a nationally representative case–control study5
Poem: Post Heart Attack Review5
Iron supplementation in women: impact of frequency on efficacy and tolerability5
Greater support, recognition, and research for health visiting post-pandemic5
Video consultations: a potential gamechanger in clinical education5
Medical treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding in primary care: 10-year data from the ECLIPSE trial5
Post-consultation acute respiratory tract infection recovery: a latent class-informed analysis of individual patient data5
Contacts in general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a register-based study5
Surviving in scrubs: sexism, sexual harassment, and assault in the primary care workforce5
Opioid reduction for patients with chronic pain in primary care: systematic review5
Digital facilitation: supporting the use of NHS digital and online services5
A brief vulnerability5
Addressing the political determinants of health5
Poem: Crab Apples5
Locum doctor use in English general practice: analysis of routinely collected workforce data 2017–20205
REM sleep behaviour disorder: the importance of early identification in primary care5
Withdrawing from SSRI antidepressants: advice for primary care5
Characteristics of good home-based end-of-life care: analysis of 5-year data from a nationwide mortality follow-back survey in England5
Primary care transformation in Scotland: qualitative evaluation of the views of national senior stakeholders and cluster quality leads5
GDP, CPI, RPI, and GPs: why economic indicators matter for GPs5
Effectiveness of safety-netting approaches for acutely ill children: a network meta-analysis5
Development and external validation of a new clinical prediction model for early recognition of sepsis in adult patients in primary care: a diagnostic study4
Trends in the prescription of drugs used for insomnia: an open-cohort study in Australian general practice, 2011–20184
Barriers to diagnosing and treating vulval lichen sclerosus: a survey study4
Books:The Ghosts of A and E4
Health professionals’ identified barriers to trans health care: a qualitative interview study4
Satisfaction with remote consultations in primary care during COVID-19: a population survey of UK adults4
Mapping opportunities for the earlier diagnosis of psoriasis in primary care settings in the UK: results from two matched case–control studies4
Rewiggling general practice4
Cost-effectiveness of oral ondansetron for children with acute gastroenteritis in primary care: a randomised controlled trial4
Rapid microbiological respiratory point-of-care testing: a qualitative study with primary care clinicians4
Communicating blood test results in primary care: a mixed-methods systematic review4
Factors influencing symptom appraisal and help-seeking of older adults with possible cancer: a mixed-methods systematic review4
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