BMJ Open
is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas.
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Press Releases
Medical education and training:
UK medical students’ mental health and their intention to drop out: a longitudinal study5 February 2025
Epidemiology:
Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study18 December 2024
Public health:
Exploration of fathers’ mental health and well-being concerns during the transition to fatherhood, and paternal perinatal support: scoping review12 November 2024
Public health:
Health impact of urban green spaces: a systematic review of heat-related morbidity and mortality22 October 2024
Most Read Articles
Communication:
How does communication affect patient safety? Protocol for a systematic review and logic model27 May 2024
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
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
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
Mental Health
Mental health:
What are the symptom trajectories of self-regulatory fatigue among family caregivers of stroke survivors? A protocol of mixed-methods study in Chinese rehabilitation settings6 March 2025
Mental health:
Consenting for themselves: a qualitative study exploring a Gillick Competence assessment to enable adolescents to self-consent to low-risk online research4 March 2025
Mental health:
Randomised controlled trial of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioural therapy for sexual minority women’s minority stress, mental health and hazardous drinking: Project EQuIP protocol3 March 2025
Recent Articles
Public health:
Representative national survey on drug use during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in the USA7 March 2025
Health services research:
Factors influencing prosthesis selection and variation: a survey of orthopaedic surgeons in Australia7 March 2025
Health services research:
Healthcare workers perspectives on barriers and facilitators to referral to type 2 diabetes prevention programmes: a systematic review7 March 2025
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