Abstract
JRSM Short Reports is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access companion journal to JRSM. JRSM Short Reports was launched in June 2010 and is rapidly developing into a leading international online resource of clinical papers, reviews and case reports on all aspects of improving patient care. As with other open access journals, authors are required to pay a small fee for published articles to cover the production costs and ensure that their article is freely available to readers. Articles published in JRSM Short Reports are now included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Google Scholar.
You can find JRSM Short Reports on the Internet at http://shr.sagepub.com. To submit a clinical paper or case report to JRSM Short Reports visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shorts. For submission inquiries contact Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of JRSM and JRSM Short Reports, by email at kamran.abbasi@rsm.ac.uk.
Articles published in JRSM Short Reports will also be mentioned in the print edition of JRSM. Here are the articles published in JRSM Short Reports in September 2013:
Research letters
Yaser Ghani, Melanie J Coathup, Karin A Hing, and Gordon W Blunn. Antibacterial effect of incorporating silver ions in electrochemically deposited hydroxyapatite coating: An experimental study. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313481212, doi:10.1177/2042533313481212 Amy Hung, Savitha Honakeri, Andrew Giles, and Adrian Steger. Prevalence of cholecystitis in gallbladder histology following clinical pancreatitis: cohort study. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313490294, doi: 10.1177/2042533313490294
Research
Avinash Manna, Oluwatoyin Oyede, Brigid Ning, Yit Yang, and Niro Narendran. Avastin and Lucentis: what do patients know? A prospective questionnaire survey. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313484146, doi:10.1177/2042533313484146 Patrick H Sweet III, Theodore Armstrong, John Chen, Eliezer Masliah, and Peter Witucki. Fatal pulmonary embolism update: 10 years of autopsy experience at an academic medical center. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313489824, doi:10.1177/2042533313489824
Case reports
Nisha Verma, Lloyd E Savy, Valerie J Lund, Ian Cropley, Ronnie Chee, and Suranjith L Seneviratne. An important diagnosis to consider in recurrent meningitis. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313486640, doi:10.1177/2042533313486640 Ashwin Algudkar, Bernard Lim, Kathleen Fan, and Robert Bentley. Sustained bilateral middle ear effusions post orthognathic surgery successfully treated with grommet insertion. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313489822, doi:10.1177/2042533313489822
Clinical review
Claire Haresnape. An exploration of the relationship between placebo and homeopathy and the implications for clinical trial design. JRSM Short Reports September 2013 4: 2042533313490927, doi:10.1177/2042533313490927