Top 10 most learn in September 2025 – white coats, sci-fi devices, and extra!

Since our final Top 10 weblog in July, there have been 9 new entries on the checklist of most-read articles printed in BMJ Open.

Top of the most-read checklist was a scientific evaluation replace by Kim et al. The authors analysed 28 research from 2015-2025 on sufferers’ perceptions of doctor apparel. They concluded that how physicians dressed impacted sufferers’ perceptions of their professionalism, and their belief and communication. However, this various by medical context and different components, like gender and even medical speciality.

Fans of the Star Trek franchise could also be happy to know that it’s not simply sci-fi – coming in second most learn was a protocol for the TRICORDER trial by Kelshiker et al., assessing the implementation of an AI-enabled ‘smart’ stethoscope for detection of three cardiovascular ailments, together with atrial fibrillation and coronary heart murmurs. The trial is about to conclude by the tip of 2025. (For non-Star Trek followers: What is a tricorder?)

Third most-read was a cross-sectional examine of over 20,000 individuals in England and Wales by Bellis et al., demonstrating that decrease psychological well-being throughout maturity was equally and independently related to publicity to both bodily or verbal abuse in childhood. The authors stress that childhood verbal abuse must be given due consideration when addressing psychological well being.

Pradelli et al. maintain the fourth most-read spot from July 2025 with their systematic evaluation and meta-synthesis of boundaries and facilitators of multidisciplinary group working in acute care settings.

New entry at quantity 5, De Soyza et al. current an attention-grabbing Communication article (as distinct to the Original Research or Protocol articles that make up the majority of BMJ Open’s content material). The authors current their observations from the National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) in delivering analysis for Multiple Long Term Conditions (MLTC). They write that it’s vital to extend the proof base across the prevention and administration of MLTC. They spotlight that the UK particularly advantages from a “unique research infrastructure, including support for the stages of planning and delivery of health and care research.”

Sixth most learn is a cross-sectional examine by Lasater et al. from British Columbia, Canada that promotes the implementation of a minimal nurse-to-patient ratio coverage. The authors hope that such a coverage might have “the potential to improve patient care safety and retention of nurses.”

At quantity seven, Marquardt et al. current a protocol for an upcoming scoping evaluation that can discover the well timed subject of AI-enabled options for maternal well being, together with an evaluation of expertise readiness. The authors hope to indicate the extent to which AI has helped real-world purposes in healthcare methods of low and center earnings international locations.

Yarger et al. are available in eighth on the checklist with a protocol for assessing nervousness in adolescents with autism spectrum dysfunction utilizing non-invasive biomarkers. Due to finish knowledge assortment in mid-2027, the examine hopes to fill gaps in our understanding of autistic and non-autistic younger individuals’s each day experiences, utilizing extra numerous populations and ecologically legitimate strategies.

New at quantity 9, Klein et al. current findings from the CORFU examine – a potential cohort examine on the scope and severity of post-COVID signs throughout numerous affected person teams within the Netherlands. Having analysed 901 members and 434 controls, the authors confirmed that post-COVID signs had been nonetheless noticed two years later in as much as 43% of non-hospitalised COVID sufferers, and rising to 65% of hospitalised sufferers.

Zhu et al. are tenth most-read this month with a protocol for a longitudinal observational examine that can have a look at adjustments in symptom severity, despair, nervousness, and high quality of life in sufferers with atrial fibrillation present process radiofrequency ablation. The authors hope to conclude the examine in late 2026.

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