BMJ Open
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Press Releases
Oncology:
Assessment of the impact of multi-cancer early detection test screening intervals on late-stage cancer at diagnosis and mortality using a state-transition model8 May 2025
Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology:
Association of 15 common dietary factors with tinnitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies18 March 2025
Sports and exercise medicine:
Effects of water aerobics on body composition in obesity and overweight people: a systematic review and meta-analysis11 March 2025
Medical education and training:
UK medical students’ mental health and their intention to drop out: a longitudinal study5 February 2025
Most Read Articles
Communication:
How does communication affect patient safety? Protocol for a systematic review and logic model27 May 2024
Oncology:
Assessment of the impact of multi-cancer early detection test screening intervals on late-stage cancer at diagnosis and mortality using a state-transition model8 May 2025
General practice / Family practice:
ChatGPT (GPT-4) versus doctors on complex cases of the Swedish family medicine specialist examination: an observational comparative study26 December 2024
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
Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology:
Association of 15 common dietary factors with tinnitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies18 March 2025
Mental Health
Mental health:
Impact of burnout on turnover, medical errors, medical leave and a cross-sectional study of contributing factors among Chilean physicians15 May 2025
Mental health:
Perspectives of general psychiatric inpatient care for persons with anorexia nervosa: an integrative literature review15 May 2025
Mental health:
Prevalence of common mental disorders and sleep disorder among adolescents and young adults with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis15 May 2025
Recent Articles
Nutrition and metabolism:
Causal analysis of undernutrition among adolescents in the context of the agrarian community of North-West Ethiopia: a general structural equation modelling approach16 May 2025
Health services research:
Perceived acceptability, barriers and enablers in implementing mobile phone messaging-based message-framing intervention for improved maternal and newborn care in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a qualitative study16 May 2025
Health informatics:
Analysis of the most influential factors affecting outcomes of lung transplant recipients: a multivariate prediction model based on UNOS Data16 May 2025
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