Levels of burnout in UK general practice are high, suggests a study of general practitioners (GPs) in one area of South East England, published in BMJ Open. Male doctors, those who work in group practices, and those who repeatedly see the same patients seem to be at significantly greater risk, the research shows, prompting the […]
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Exploring open access in higher education
BMJ Open will be taking part in the The Guardian’s Higher Education Network’s live blog/debate tomorrow on Exploring open access in higher education. Discussion kicks off at noon, BST and will run until 2 pm. There is a large panel, drawn from publishing, academia, industry and policy. The event will ‘consider the various ways in which higher […]
Open Access Week is here
BMJ Open is proudly sponsoring Open Access Week 2011. A global event, now in its fifth year, Open Access Week promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. The website currently lists 119 upcoming events so have a look to see what is happening near you or browse their back catalogue […]
Most popular articles in August
The list of the top 10 most-read articles in BMJ Open in August is topped by a protocol that sets out an implementation research study to assess the surgical scale-up process in the rural district of Achham, Nepal. You can see it here. There are three protocols in the top 10. Authors Title 1 D […]
Most popular articles in July
The list of the top 10 most-read articles in BMJ Open in July includes some recent content and some older papers. It’s good to see a range of topics covered, and two study protocols included also. Engkilde et al.’s recent paper on the association between cancer and contact allergy received considerable coverage in the press […]
Data available for BMJ Open article on medical device recalls
Great news! The full data set for the recently published article, ‘Medical-device recalls in the UK and the device-regulation process: retrospective review of safety notices and alerts’ has been deposited by the authors with DryadUK. The data files can be accessed online here: dx.doi.org./10.5061/dryad.585t4 Data set should be cited as: doi:10.5061/dryad.585t4 […]
Medical device recalls paper prompts concern in parliament and further coverage
The BMJ Open and BMJ articles (see previous post) and the Channel 4 Dispatches episode on the regulation and recall of medical devices has been covered in various newspapers and even prompted a question in Parliament. MPs Paul Flynn and Peter Bottomley tabled Early Day Motion 1819 noting the findings of the research and calling […]
BMJ Open and BMJ articles on device recalls
Yesterday BMJ Open published ‘Medical-device recalls in the UK and the device-regulation process: retrospective review of safety notices and alerts‘. This paper sits with features, analysis and commentary in the BMJ and the latest edition of Dispatches, ‘The truth about going under the knife’, on Channel 4 (tonight, 16 May, 8 pm). The full list […]
Locked-in syndrome article coverage
A month after launch, some of our first papers are still being picked up in the media (see today’s Irish Medical Times for coverage of our paper on delays in recording diagnoses of ovarian cancer). The paper by Bruno et al. on self-assessed well-being of locked-in syndrome patients received considerable coverage, including this interview on BBC […]