Abstract
JRSM Open is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access companion journal to JRSM. JRSM Open 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 Open are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Google Scholar.
You can find JRSM Open on the Internet at http://jro.sagepub.com. To submit a clinical paper or case report to JRSM Open, visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shorts. For submission inquiries, contact Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of JRSM and JRSM Open, by email at kamran.abbasi@rsm.ac.uk.
Articles published in JRSM Open will also be mentioned in the print edition of JRSM. Here are the articles published in JRSM Open in January 2015:
Case reports
Zhe Wu and Fergus Rugg-Gunn. Breathing difficulty in a middle-aged woman – a dangerous cause? JRSM Open January 2015;6: 2054270414554246, doi:10.1177/2054270414554246 Sivan Sivaloganathan, Romel Amr, Raj Shrivastava and Jaikumar Relwani. The Risotto sign – a severe inflammatory bursitis with rice body formation, complicating a rotator cuff repair with a bioabsorbable suture anchor. JRSM Open January 2015;6: 2054270414562986, doi:10.1177/2054270414562986 Susan Hendrickson, Liza Chacko and Mark H Wilson. Raised intracranial pressure following abdominal closure in a polytrauma patient. JRSM Open January 2015;6: 2054270414565958, doi:10.1177/2054270414565958
Research
Roxana Alexandrescu, Alex Bottle, Min Hua Jen, Brian Jarman and Paul Aylin. The US hospital standardised mortality ratio: retrospective database study of Massachusetts hospitals. JRSM Open January 2015;6: 2054270414559083, doi:10.1177/2054270414559083 Bayad Abdalrahman, Anthony A Laverty, Gail Beckett and Azeem Majeed. Trends in hospital admissions for Varicella and Zoster viruses in England, 2001/2002–2010/2011: time trend study. JRSM Open January 2015;6: 2054270414562984, doi:10.1177/2054270414562984