“Green Means Knock!”

Making the transition from reading basic science textbooks to interacting with real live patients can seem like a daunting mountain to climb for any medical student. Follow one second year medical student’s journey as she hikes her way up to the top of Mt. Morchand

What?? There’s a Genocide? Where?

Genocide is not a subject that people like to talk about, but the fact of the matter is that it does exist today. The genocide that is being referred to is that which is occurring in Darfur, Sudan. This genocide has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people since 2003. As the genocide continues, out of the sorrow arises the stories of healthcare professionals who have devoted their lives to providing medical care in the conflict-ridden countries such as Darfur. Leading the way in providing medical services in Darfur is the International Medical Corps

The impact of customer perceived service quality on customer satisfaction for private health centre in Malaysia: a structural equation modeling approach

The main purpose of this paper is to develop and test the modified SERVQUAL model to measure Malaysian private healthcare quality. A total of 131 participants were selected randomly those visit private hospitals in Malaysia for healthcare facility. Then data were examined using means, correlations, principal component and exploratory factor analysis to establish the modified SERVQUAL scale’s reliability, underlying dimensionality and convergent, discriminant validity. This paper than utilizes the structural equation modeling technique to do confirmatory factor analysis and test the hypothesized positive inter-relationships between customer’s perception and customer satisfaction. This paper reviews and identifies essential service quality variables that are associated with the customer satisfaction in the private hospital. Customer satisfaction should reflect the need of healthcare quality requested by the customers, as direct and indirect relationships exist between personnel support and customer satisfaction and attention to customers and hospital facilities and between hospital facilities and customer satisfaction. The proposed model has been tested on only one private hospital in Malaysia due to short period. Due to this small sample size and the convenient method of data collection, there is a possibility of biasness of the authors may play a role in the outcome of the study. The main contribution of this study is that, it proposes a way to assess quality services in the private hospitals. This study has proposed a conceptual model that need further investigation and opens a way for future research

Design and Implementation of a Feasible Model for the IoT Based Ubiquitous Healthcare Monitoring System fot Rural and Urban Areas

The Internet of Things (IoT) based real-time health monitoring system has contributed towards a brilliant human welfare both in urban and rural areas. Many of such solutions are not well applicable in developing countries like Bangladesh due to lack of uninterrupted communication system. In this paper, we present an IoT-based real-time health monitoring system that can measure, monitor and report people's health condition online and offline from anywhere. Our proposed IoT based solution is capable to transmit the sensitive health information to medical centres and caregivers in real time. The proposed system has been designed with Arduino UNO, Nodemcu, and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) modules to measure body temperature, pulse rate, Oxygen saturation, room temperature, and air quality in a smart home setting. The system can also provide the patient's historical health records. Our implementation was tested on some test cases which works excellent with accuracy. The proposed system has high potentiality for the rural and urban areas in developing countries.Dr. Mohammad Alibakhshikenari and Dr. Farhad Arpanaei acknowledge support from the CONEX-Plus programme funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 801538. Also, this work was supported, in part, by Project RTI2018-095499-B-C31, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE), in part, by a Foreign Expert Exchange Project from the Minister of Science and Technology (grant no.: G2021171024L) and in part, by Project PCNNo.IC20201325, funded by Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information & Statistics (BANBEIS), Ministry of Education, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

DIFFUSE JUVENILE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS PATIENTS SHOW DISTINCT ORGAN INVOLVEMENT, ANTIBODY PATTERN AND HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SEVERE DISEASE IN THE LARGEST JSSC COHORT OF THE WORLD. RESULTS FROM THE JUVENILE SCLERODERMA INCEPTION COHORT

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Establishing core domain sets for Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis (CNO) and Synovitis, Acne, Pustulosis, Hyperostosis, Osteitis (SAPHO): A report from the OMERACT 2020 special interest group.

OBJECTIVE: A working group was established to develop a core domain set (CDS) for Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis (CNO) and Synovitis, Acne, Pustulosis, Hyperostosis, Osteitis (SAPHO) following the OMERACT filter 2.1. METHODS: A scoping review to identify disease-related manifestations was performed, followed by a special interest group (SIG) session at OMERACT2020 to begin the CNO/SAPHO CDS framework. RESULTS: Candidate items were identified from the scoping review and most fell under Life Impact and Pathophysiology Manifestation core areas. A SIG agreed on the need to develop a CDS for CNO and SAPHO (100%) and for children and adults (91%). CONCLUSION: Based on candidate items identified, qualitative research and Delphi surveys will be performed as next steps