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intrafamily transmission of hcv need to more discussion

Using Case Discussion for Resident Training

Introduction. Despite growing evidence in the field of undergraduate medical education, there is not much data on resident training. Case presentation is a useful tool for scientific clinical education which along with evidence based medicine will become an interactive training method. So, the goal of this study was to compare traditional educational methods with hard talk and their role in le...

Intrafamily Transmission of HCV Need to More Discussion

The article titled; Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Iranian patients with congenital bleeding disorders, revealed the genotype distribution of HCV in Iranian hemophilic patients. 4 In this study, results demonstrate genotype 1a was the most frequent HCV genotype (58%), followed by genotype 3a (18.5%) and genotype 1b (14.7%). Mixed genotypes were also detected in 6.2%. These findi...

Not Up for Discussion: Applying Lukes’ Power Model to the Study of Health System Corruption; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

This companion paper suggests the potential benefits of applying Steven Lukes’ dimensions of power model to the study of corruption in health systems. Lukes’ model sets out three “faces of power” classified by their influence on political discourse, resulting in overt, covert and latent discussion of issues depending on the degree of their alignment with the agenda of d...

Rejoinder: Need for a data-driven discussion on the socioeconomic patterning of cardiovascular health in India.

We thank each of the commentators for their responses to our review of the evidence underlying the association of socioeconomic status and cardiovascular health in India. To briefly recap, we conducted a systematic review of studies that reported an association between measures of socioeconomic status (SES) (specifically, education, household income, occupation, household assets/standard of liv...