Sujata Ayarkar,Aarthi Chandrasekhar
Sujata Ayarkar
B was a frail 15-year-old girl who was brought to the hospital by the police. She had met a 22-year-old boy on a social networking site a few months earlier. They had fallen in love and she had started living with him. On finding his daught...
Chandrashekar Janakiram,Farheen Taha
Chandrashekar Janakiram
Screening is the detection of disease at a point in its natural history when it is not yet symptomatic. In the natural history of dental caries, for example, the incipient lesions are at a reversible stage, which is a pre-symptomatic or an ...
Abha Khetarpal,Satendra Singh
Abha Khetarpal
Different models have defined the term disability and grouped persons with disabilities accordingly. Time and again, various terms and phrases have been used in different languages to identity persons according to the differences in their b...
The Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897: public health relevance in the current scenario [0.03%]
1897年《防疫法》：当前形势下的公共卫生意义
P S Rakesh
P S Rakesh
Recently, many states in India have invoked various provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 to control communicable diseases. In this context, the Act was reviewed with reference to its relevance in the current context of surveillan...
Ahmad Kalateh Sadati,Mohammad Taghi Iman,Kamran Bagheri Lankarani et al.
Ahmad Kalateh Sadati et al.
Doctor-patient interaction is a subject with ethical ramifications, besides being an important issue in medical sociology. The main goal of this critical study is to explore the interactional experience of hospital admitted patients. For th...
Personal experience narratives by students: a teaching-learning tool in bioethics [0.03%]
学生个人经历叙述在生物伦理学教学中的作用
Radhika H Pandya,Radha Shukla,Alpa P Gor et al.
Radhika H Pandya et al.
The principles of bioethics have been identified as important requirements for training basic medical doctors. Till now, various modalities have been used for teaching bioethics, such as lectures, followed by a small case-based discussion, ...
Kabir Sheikh,Shinjini Mondal,Pratibha Patanwar et al.
Kabir Sheikh et al.
The importance of addressing concerns of rural health worker welfare in order to improve their performance and retention is widely acknowledged; yet there is little empirical research on the needs of rural health professionals. We report fi...
Response to proposed research to reverse brain death: more than regulatory failure [0.03%]
对逆转脑死亡研究提案的回应：问题多于监管失败
Sandhya Srinivasan,Veena Johari
Sandhya Srinivasan
In early May 2016, reports of a bizarre study to attempt a reversal of brain death made the headlines, but there was not even a squeak from the authorities. The "Reanima Project" is a collaboration between an Indian surgeon, Himanshu Bansal...
Impact of recent regulatory notifications on an institutional ethics committee [0.03%]
近期监管通知对机构伦理委员会的影响
Shruti S Bhide,Sharmila V Jalgaonkar,Janhavi V Katkar et al.
Shruti S Bhide et al.
The Government of India came out with a slew of notifications to streamline clinical research in the beginning of 2013 in response to the Supreme Court's orders and a Parliamentary Standing Committee's report. The notifications greatly infl...
Why mistreatment of medical students is not reported in clinical settings: perspectives of trainees [0.03%]
为何临床培训环境中医学生受欺凌事件没有被上报——受训医师的视角分析
Habibeh Ahmadipour,Reza Vafadar
Habibeh Ahmadipour
Mistreatment of medical students is a major source of stress for them. Studies indicate a high incidence of such mistreatment, especially in clinical settings. In most cases, students who have been mistreated do not report it to the authori...