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 March 2016:
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Turki A Binmoammar, Sondus Hassounah, Saad Alsaad, Salman Rawaf, and Azeem Majeed. The impact of poor glycaemic control on the prevalence of erectile dysfunction in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review. JRSM Open March 2016 7: 2054270415622602, doi:10.1177/2054270415622602 Yewande Idowu, Elizabeth Muir, and Graham Easton. Problem-based learning case writing by students based on early years clinical attachments: a focus group evaluation. JRSM Open March 2016 7: 2054270415622776, doi:10.1177/2054270415622776 Sarah Ogilvie, Katie Hopgood, Ian Higginson, Andrew Ives, and Jason E Smith. Why do parents use the emergency department for minor injury and illness? A cross-sectional questionnaire. JRSM Open March 2016 7: 2054270415623695, doi:10.1177/2054270415623695 Trevor W Lambert, Fay Smith, and Michael J Goldacre. The impact of the European Working Time Directive 10 years on: views of the UK medical graduates of 2002 surveyed in 2013–2014. JRSM Open March 2016 7: 2054270416632703, doi:10.1177/2054270416632703