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 February 2017:
Research
Peter Ross, Jane Hubert, and Wai Lup Wong. Reducing the blame culture through clinical audit in nuclear medicine: a mixed methods study. JRSM Open February 2017 8(2), doi: 10.1177/2054270416681433 Irene Braithwaite, Steve Mackintosh, Samantha Buchanan, Kerstin Schwarzenlander, and Bernadette De Ruyter. Venous haemodynamics of Jet Impulse Technology within a lower limb fibreglass cast: a randomized controlled trial. JRSM Open February 2017 8(2), doi: 10.1177/2054270416681746 Mahmoud Radwan, Ali Akbarisari, Arash Rashidian, AmirHossein Takian, Sanaa Abou-Dagga, and Aymen Mohammed Elsous. Appraising the methodological quality of the clinical practice guideline for diabetes mellitus using the AGREE II instrument: a methodological evaluation. JRSM Open February 2017 8(2), doi: 10.1177/2054270416682673
Case reports
Joon Heng Tan, Akhlaque Uddin, and Juan Fernandez. Concurrent subarachnoid haemorrhage and ST elevation myocardial infarction. JRSM Open February 2017 8(2), doi: 10.1177/2054270416685207 Ravi Varma and Calum Ross. Liquorice: a root cause of secondary hypertension. JRSM Open February 2017 8(2), doi: 10.1177/2054270416685208