July saw three new papers enter BMJ Open’s top 10 most read articles. This includes first position, a study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark that reanalyses data from a systematic review and network meta-analysis on antidepressants for depression. Taking into account several biases, their reanalysis suggests that the evidence does not support definitive conclusions regarding the efficacy of antidepressants for depression in adults, including whether they are more efficacious than placebo for depression.
Also new at number 7 is a cross-sectional survey of productivity loss due to menstruation-related symptoms in more than 30,000 women from the Netherlands. The study’s results indicate that menstrual period symptoms may be linked to nearly nine days of lost productivity every year through presenteeism. Our last new entry is a meta-analysis by Wang and colleagues investigating sex differences in the effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on major cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality. Their meta-analysis suggests that women with DM have a much higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, cardiac death and all-cause mortality compared to men with DM.
| Rank | Author(s) | Title |
| 1 | Munkholm et al. | |
| 2 | Müller et al. |
Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review |
| 3 | Watai et al. | |
| 4 | Du Mont et al. | |
| 5 | Dennermalm et al. | |
| 6 | Kuh et al. | |
| 7 | Schoep et al. | |
| 8 | Stiglic et al. | |
| 9 | Wang et al. | |
| 10 | Woolf et al. |
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