Share how BMJ Group helped you make a difference
Whether you used a BMJ journal, event, or tool to improve care, advance research, or influence policy, we would like to hear your story. Your experience could be featured on bmjgroup.com or in our next impact report.
Takes two minutes to complete.
Why your story matters
Your examples help show how evidence and education become better outcomes for patients, professionals, and communities. They also help others learn what works.
What to include
What changed in your setting or community
How BMJ helped (journal, event, course, guideline, BMJ Best Practice clincial decision support, or another tool)
Who benefited (patients, clinicians, students, policy makers)
Any evidence you can share (numbers or qualitative feedback)
Example: “Using BMJ Best Practice, our team reduced time to correct diagnosis for neonatal sepsis.”
“The more we show what’s working, the faster good ideas spread.”
Ingrid Bray
Senior Corporate Communications Manager, and editor of BMJ Group’s annual impact report
Stories that have made a difference
Ugandan trial shifted global covid-19 guidance
In August 2021, Dr Bruce Kirenga and his team at the Makerere University Lung Institute published a pivotal study in BMJ Open Respiratory Research on the efficacy of convalescent plasma for covid-19 treatment in Uganda.
The study’s findings on the limited efficacy of convalescent plasma (CP) helped shape major treatment guidelines, including the World Health Organization Therapeutics and COVID-19: Living guideline. Where most publications in the biomedical and clinical sciences field receive only two to three citations, this study has far exceeded that benchmark. BMJ Impact Analytics shows 46 citations in health policy, eight in clinical guidance, and uptake across five countries.
Influencing health policy in Peru
Dr Magaly Blas, medical epidemiologist at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University, Peru, led the Mamás del Río programme to improve maternal and newborn care in remote Amazonian communities. Published in BMJ Innovations, the work informed national policy, was integrated into Peru’s health system, and expanded from 13 to 84 communities with improved newborn outcomes.
Rare case report sparks global safety rethink
Dr Clara Maarup Prip, a urologist and gynaecologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, documented an unusual case of kidney swelling caused by a menstrual cup compressing the ureter. Published as “Ureterohydronephrosis due to a menstrual cup in BMJ Case Reports,” the paper spread quickly after it was press-released by the BMJ Group media relations team, sparking widespread discussion on safe cup use and symptom awareness.
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