| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A systematic review of evidence on the links between patient experience and clinical safety and effectiveness | BMJ Open | 2013 | 1,451 |
| 2 | STARD 2015 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: explanation and elaboration | BMJ Open | 2016 | 1,324 |
| 3 | Development of a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of cross-sectional studies (AXIS) | BMJ Open | 2016 | 1,137 |
| 4 | Plea for routinely presenting prediction intervals in meta-analysis | BMJ Open | 2016 | 998 |
| 5 | What proportion of patients report long-term pain after total hip or knee replacement for osteoarthritis? A systematic review of prospective studies in unselected patients | BMJ Open | 2012 | 996 |
| 6 | Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies | BMJ Open | 2016 | 793 |
| 7 | Telehealth and patient satisfaction: a systematic review and narrative analysis | BMJ Open | 2017 | 741 |
| 8 | Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide | BMJ Open | 2013 | 702 |
| 9 | Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare | BMJ Open | 2019 | 690 |
| 10 | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of healthcare services: a systematic review | BMJ Open | 2021 | 671 |
| 11 | Positive predictive value of cardiovascular diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Registry: a validation study | BMJ Open | 2016 | 574 |
| 12 | Systematic review of incidence and complications of herpes zoster: towards a global perspective | BMJ Open | 2014 | 557 |
| 13 | Effects of screentime on the health and well-being of children and adolescents: a systematic review of reviews | BMJ Open | 2019 | 550 |
| 14 | Examining the associations between HIV-related stigma and health outcomes in people living with HIV/AIDS: a series of meta-analyses | BMJ Open | 2016 | 540 |
| 15 | Cohort profile: the National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) in Korea | BMJ Open | 2017 | 533 |
| 16 | Population health bio-phenotypes in 11–12 year old children and their midlife parents: Growing Up in Australia’s Child Health CheckPoint | BMJ Open | 2019 | 520 |
| 17 | Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study | BMJ Open | 2016 | 511 |
| 18 | Economic impact of medication non-adherence by disease groups: a systematic review | BMJ Open | 2018 | 511 |
| 19 | Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options? A systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ Open | 2013 | 510 |
| 20 | Prescriber barriers and enablers to minimising potentially inappropriate medications in adults: a systematic review and thematic synthesis | BMJ Open | 2014 | 504 |
| 21 | Perceptions of medical students towards online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey of 2721 UK medical students | BMJ Open | 2020 | 496 |
| 22 | A comparison of the causes of blindness certifications in England and Wales in working age adults (16–64 years), 1999–2000 with 2009–2010 | BMJ Open | 2014 | 465 |
| 23 | Road to resilience: a systematic review and meta-analysis of resilience training programmes and interventions | BMJ Open | 2018 | 460 |
| 24 | International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic review of 67 countries | BMJ Open | 2017 | 456 |
| 25 | Health economic burden that wounds impose on the National Health Service in the UK | BMJ Open | 2015 | 445 |
| 26 | Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence | BMJ Open | 2017 | 442 |
| 27 | Incubation period of COVID-19: a rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of observational research | BMJ Open | 2020 | 420 |
| 28 | Methods to improve recruitment to randomised controlled trials: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ Open | 2013 | 418 |
| 29 | Prenatal exposure to cannabis and maternal and child health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ Open | 2016 | 418 |
| 30 | Sleep and use of electronic devices in adolescence: results from a large population-based study | BMJ Open | 2015 | 408 |
| 31 | Health effects of climate change: an overview of systematic reviews | BMJ Open | 2021 | 395 |
| 32 | Continuity of care with doctors—a matter of life and death? A systematic review of continuity of care and mortality | BMJ Open | 2018 | 385 |
| 33 | Do men consult less than women? An analysis of routinely collected UK general practice data | BMJ Open | 2013 | 377 |
| 34 | Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource | BMJ Open | 2016 | 369 |
| 35 | A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses | BMJ Open | 2015 | 368 |
| 36 | Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in national surveys from England, the USA and Canada, and correlation with stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality: a cross-sectional study | BMJ Open | 2013 | 360 |
| 37 | Systematic review of systematic reviews of non-pharmacological interventions to treat behavioural disturbances in older patients with dementia. The SENATOR-OnTop series | BMJ Open | 2017 | 356 |
| 38 | Demographic risk factors for COVID-19 infection, severity, ICU admission and death: a meta-analysis of 59 studies | BMJ Open | 2021 | 354 |
| 39 | A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers | BMJ Open | 2015 | 349 |
| 40 | Prevalence and determinants of undetected dementia in the community: a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis | BMJ Open | 2017 | 349 |
| 41 | What determines patient satisfaction with surgery? A prospective cohort study of 4709 patients following total joint replacement | BMJ Open | 2013 | 344 |
| 42 | Delirium in an adult acute hospital population: predictors, prevalence and detection | BMJ Open | 2013 | 343 |
| 43 | Scoping review on the use of socially assistive robot technology in elderly care | BMJ Open | 2018 | 343 |
| 44 | Promoting professional behaviour change in healthcare: what interventions work, and why? A theory-led overview of systematic reviews | BMJ Open | 2015 | 342 |
| 45 | Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome: a prospective, community-based study | BMJ Open | 2021 | 341 |
| 46 | Salt reduction in England from 2003 to 2011: its relationship to blood pressure, stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality | BMJ Open | 2014 | 338 |
| 47 | Hypnotics' association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study | BMJ Open | 2012 | 336 |
| 48 | Recruitment and retention of participants in randomised controlled trials: a review of trials funded and published by the United Kingdom Health Technology Assessment Programme | BMJ Open | 2017 | 335 |
| 49 | Are differences in travel time or distance to healthcare for adults in global north countries associated with an impact on health outcomes? A systematic review | BMJ Open | 2016 | 334 |
| 50 | The relationship between physician burnout and quality of healthcare in terms of safety and acceptability: a systematic review | BMJ Open | 2017 | 328 |
