Abstract
JRSM Short Reports is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access companion journal to JRSM. JRSM Short Reports 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 Short Reports are now included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Google Scholar.
You can find JRSM Short Reports on the Internet at http://shr.sagepub.com. To submit a clinical paper or case report to JRSM Short Reports visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shorts. For submission inquiries contact Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of JRSM and JRSM Short Reports, by email at kamran.abbasi@rsm.ac.uk.
Articles published in JRSM Short Reports will also be mentioned in the print edition of JRSM. Here are the articles published in JRSM Short Reports in October 2013:
Research
Yu-Xue Wang, Wei Liu, Xin-Yu Tan and Hui-Huan Tang. In vitro neuraotropic growth of cholangiocarcinoma: an experimental study. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313476690, doi:10.1177/2042533313476690 Maha Shomaf, Jamal Masad, Saleh Najjar and Dana Faydi. Distribution of breast cancer subtypes among Jordanian women and correlation with histopathological grade: molecular subclassification study. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313490516, doi:10.1177/2042533313490516 Keith J Petrie, Kate Faasse, Tracey Anne Notman and Ronan O'Carroll. How distressing is it to participate in medical research? A calibration study using an everyday events questionnaire. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313493271, doi:10.1177/2042533313493271
Case Report
Simon Lammy, Emily Pringle, Fiona Carnochan, Helen Rodgers, Tristan Yan and William Walker. Right lower lobectomy following inhalation of a toy traffic cone. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313476699, doi:10.1177/2042533313476699
Research Letters
Caesar A Wek, Cormac P Kelly, Joby John and Gordon Blunn. Histological evaluation of retrieved Copeland re-surfacing shoulder arthroplasties. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313478003, doi:10.1177/2042533313478003 Hisanori Fukunaga, Masataka Taguri and Satoshi Morita. Relative age effect on Nobel laureates in the UK. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313492514, doi:10.1177/2042533313492514
Methodological Review
Claire Haresnape. The challenges of obtaining ethics approval for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled research study in Jersey. JRSM Short Reports October 2013 4: 2042533313492513, doi:10.1177/2042533313492513