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 November 2016:
Case reports
Anniek Reijnierse, Janneke A Burgers, Attie TJI Go, Johannes F Zengerink, and Robin MF van der Weiden. Late complications of bariatric surgery in pregnancy. JRSM Open November 2016 7: 2054270416660935, doi:10.1177/2054270416660935 Vijayabharathy Kanthasamy, and Indira Natarajan. Rare and challenging case of stroke as a manifestation of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis in an underlying ovarian clear cell carcinoma. JRSM Open November 2016 7: 2054270416669304, doi:10.1177/2054270416669304
Clinical reviews
Rahat Qureshi, Sheikh Irfan Ahmed, Amir Raza, Ayesha Khurshid, and Uzma Chishti. Obstetric patients in intensive care unit: Perspective from a teaching hospital in Pakistan. JRSM Open November 2016 7: 2054270416663569, doi:10.1177/2054270416663569 Christos S Zipitis, Zulf M Mughal, and Peter E Clayton. Assessing the population impact of low rates of vitamin D supplementation on type 1 diabetes using a new statistical method. JRSM Open November 2016 7: 2054270416653522, doi:10.1177/2054270416653522