he Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (JPGM) celebrated 50 years of its existence by organizing JPGM GoldCon, an international conference on medical writing, editing and pub lishing at the Seth GS Medical College from 23-26 September 2004. JPGM was the first indexed journal published by any medical college in India. Fittingly this first international conference in India was devoted to medical wri...

In this paper we present a case study of media reporting about medical technology issues. We discuss two incidents involving human error with medical devices that resulted in infant deaths, and their relevance for the medical device design and mobile health communities. Our analysis into the language and discourses of news reporting shows that the news narratives of these incidents emphasise hu...

This paper deals with unsupervised feature-based speaker adaptation techniques. The goal is to design an optimal adaptation approach for improving the recognition accuracy of a LVCSR system developed for automatic transcription of large archives of spoken Czech (e.g. the archive of the parliament talks, historical archives of Czech broadcast stations, etc.) For this purpose, several modificatio...

background: delayed reporting resulting in advanced stage disease is a common problem in indian cancer patients. this study analysed the impact of various sociodemographic and psychosocial factors on the delayed reporting to healthcare professional (hcp) in oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients. methods: this cross sectional observational study was conducted using a structured questionnaire. q...

BACKGROUND Multivariable models are frequently used in the medical literature, but many clinicians have limited training in these analytic methods. Our objective was to assess the prevalence of multivariable methods in medical literature, quantify reporting of methodological criteria applicable to most methods, and determine if assumptions specific to logistic regression or proportional hazards...

The reasons behind adverse drug events (ADE) getting underreported by medical professionals are overlooking complex drug reactions and dealing with cumbersome manual process of reporting ADE based on patient profiles. We present an initial design of SALUS ICSR reporting tool that supports the reporting of ADE to regulatory authorities with services (i) enabling automatic prepopulation of report...

BACKGROUND Recent data suggest that medical injuries, or adverse events, represent an important international problem, and that many are caused by errors. Spontaneous reporting is the main tool used to detect errors and adverse events in most countries, and reporting systems are believed to be important for improving patient safety. Increasingly, such reporting can be done using information sys...