BMJ Open
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Press Releases
General practice / Family practice:
The changing shape of English general practice: a retrospective longitudinal study using national datasets describing trends in organisational structure, workforce and recorded appointments3 September 2024
Occupational and environmental medicine:
Investigating sustainability in work after participating in a welfare-to-work initiative using a 2-year cohort study of Work Programme participants in Scotland22 August 2024
Global health:
Life expectancy and geographic variation in mortality: an observational comparison study of six high-income Anglophone countries13 August 2024
Most Read Articles
Cardiovascular medicine:
Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system28 March 2024
Cardiovascular medicine:
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review27 November 2023
Pharmacology and therapeutics:
Low-dose naltrexone for post-COVID fatigue syndrome: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomised trial in British Columbia13 May 2024
Mental Health
Mental health:
Characteristics and factors associated with psychotic-like experiences in remission: a cross-sectional study of 4208 college students in China1 October 2024
Mental health:
Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence (DIORA): a protocol for a 12-month prospective observational study testing the associations among digital activity, affective and cognitive reactions and depression symptoms in a community sample of UK adolescents30 September 2024
Mental health:
Improve Mental Health (Improve-MH) in refugee families using a culturally adapted, general practitioner-delivered psychotherapeutic intervention combined with Triple P Online parenting programme: study protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial24 September 2024
Mental health:
Suicidal behaviours and associated factors among residents of Jimma Town, Southwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study24 September 2024
Mental health:
Global contribution of suicide to maternal mortality: a systematic review protocol16 September 2024
Recent Articles
Health services research:
Long-term probabilistic forecasts of activity mitigation in English hospitals: a national elicitation exercise providing an outside view based on judgements of experts in support of the New Hospital Programme4 October 2024
Rehabilitation medicine:
Development of a vocational rehabilitation intervention to support return-to-work and well-being following major trauma: a person-based approach4 October 2024
Medical education and training:
Satisfaction survey on graduates of standardised training for resident doctors in Guizhou Province, China4 October 2024
Health informatics:
Virtual simulation for teaching cardiology in nursing: a scoping review protocol4 October 2024
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