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 October 2016:
Research
L Jefferson, C Fairhurst, E Cooper, C Hewitt, T Torgerson, L Cook, P Tharmanathan, S Cockayne, and D Torgerson. No difference found in time to publication by statistical significance of trial results: a methodological review. JRSM Open 2016 7: 2054270416649283 Domingo A Román, Isabel V Pizarro, Lidia Rivera, Juan Ávila, and Pedro Cortés. Magnesium, zinc, arsenic, selenium and platinum urinary excretion from cancer patients of Antofagasta region, Chile: multi-metal approach. JRSM Open 2016 7: 2054270416660932 Richard Laugharne, Matt Branch, Anji Mitchell, Lindsay Parkin, Phil Confue, Rohit Shankar, Diane Wilson-James, Mike Marshall, Maria Edgecombe, Bernie Keaney, Kiran Gill, and Juliet Harrison. What happens when 55% of acute psychiatric beds are closed in six days: an unexpected naturalistic observational study. JRSM Open 2016 7: 2054270416649280
Case reports
Joon H Tan, Liam Healy, Kristel Yap, and Aditya Mandal. An unexpected rash with gastroenteritis: erythema multiforme associated with campylobacter infection. JRSM Open 2016 7: 2054270416654360 Michael T McCarthy, Hawa Ebrahem, Zariena Aibdeen, Philip A Hodnett, Elizabeth Mulcahy, and Nemer Osman. Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years. JRSM Open 2016 7: 2054270416660934