Greg Irving, Ana Luísa Neves, Hajira Dambha‐Miller, Ai Oishi et al.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the average primary care physician consultation length in economically developed and low-income/middle-income countries, and to examine the relationship between consultation length and organisational-level economic, and health outcomes. DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES: This is a s...
Tahmina Begum
Communication between patients and health professionals is seen as the core clinical function in building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship, which is the heart and art of the medicine. Patients satisfaction is strongly influenced by the quality of the communication that occurs. Effective co...
Debra Roter, Judith A. Hall, Nancy Katz
David Vassallo, Farzana Hoque, Mike Roberts, Victor Patterson et al.
In July 1999, the Swinfen Charitable Trust in the UK established a telemedicine link in Bangladesh, between the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Dhaka and medical consultants abroad. This low-cost telemedicine system used a digital camera to capture still images, which were th...
R Swinfen, P Swinfen
The Swinfen Charitable Trust uses digital cameras and email to provide specialist advice to doctors in developing countries. The first telemedicine link was set up in July 1999. By the end of a year there were three links to hospitals in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Solomon Islands. Initially the consu...
Janette Pow, Kaberi Gayen, Lawrie Elliott, Robert Raeside
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to raise the awareness of social network analysis as a method to facilitate research in nursing research. BACKGROUND: The application of social network analysis in assessing network properties has allowed greater insight to be gained in many areas includ...
Susanne Chowdhury, Zafrullah Chowdhury
In Bangladesh, social as well as economic factors strongly favour the use of women over men; and of papaprofessionals over qualified physicians, for tubectomy surgery. Of 600 tubectomies carried out in three centres, 366 were performed by female paraprofesional workers with an average of only two mo...
Bipin Chaurasia, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana, Gianluca Scalia, Francesco Barresi et al.
BACKGROUND: The use of social media to communicate and disseminate knowledge has increased exponentially, especially in the field of neurosurgery. 'Neurosurgery cocktail' (NC) was developed by a group of young neurosurgeons as a means of sharing didactic materials and clinical experiences via social...
Kenneth M. Bleile, Lauren Ireland, Tricia Kiel
You have accessThe ASHA LeaderWorld Beat1 Dec 2006The Professions Around the World: New Web-Based Directory Goes Global Kenneth M. Bleile, Lauren Ireland and Tricia Kiel Kenneth M. Bleile Google Scholar More articles by this author , Lauren Ireland Google Scholar More articles by this author and Tri...
O. L. Wade, H. Hood
The way in which data on the prescribing of drugs by doctors in Northern Ireland has been collected and analysed with the aid of electronic data proces sing equipment which was first installed in 1966 has been described by Wade and Hood (1972). The present paper describes changes in Northern Ireland...
Swarmita Afreen, M. S. Rahman
The present study was conducted to evaluate the adherence to treatment guidelines in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. The study assessed the awareness of prescribers, adherence to treatment guidelines and reasons for non-adherence. A questionnaire survey was conducted followed by a retro...
Parth Sharma, Manik Inder Singh Sethi, Andrian Liem, Hakikat Bir Singh Bhatti et al.
Introduction: Telemedicine use has increased for the past few years, and data security-related issues have also accompanied this. Barriers such as poor digital literacy, unaffordability, and ethical and legal issues have also affected the uptake of digital health. Telemedicine guidelines can help in...
Muhammad Zakaria, Rezaul Karim, Murshida Rahman, Feng Cheng et al.
BACKGROUND: Physician-patient communication behavior (PPCB) is the primary process by which medical decision-making occurs and health outcome depends. Physician-patient communication differences may partly from the ethnic disparities. To examine this problem, this study aims to explore whether physi...
Edwin Phillip Greenup, Daniel Best, Matthew J. Page, Ben Potts
Objective This study investigated the provision of public specialist out-patient services in Queensland delivered in traditional hospital settings (in person) or through a two-way synchronous videoconferencing session (telehealth). Rates of attendance between these delivery methods were compared to ...
Nora L. Watson, Christine Prosperi, Amanda J. Driscoll, Melissa M. Higdon et al.
The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study is the largest multicountry etiology study of pediatric pneumonia undertaken in the past 3 decades. The study enrolled 4232 hospitalized cases and 5325 controls over 2 years across 9 research sites in 7 countries in Africa and Asia. The ...