Online academic community in the Asia-Pacific countries: The paragon of a metamorphic world

Affiliations

¹ Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Pune, India.
² Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
³ Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁴ BJC Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Allergy, Arthritis and Rheumatology Clinic, Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.
⁶ Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong City, Hong Kong.
⁷ Dr. Humeira Badsha Medical Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
⁸ Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
⁹ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India.
¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.

Editorial

Prithvi Sanjeevkumar Gaur et al. Int J Rheum Dis. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;24(10):1229-1234.

doi: 10.1111/1756-185X.14196.

¹ Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Pune, India.
² Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
³ Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁴ BJC Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Allergy, Arthritis and Rheumatology Clinic, Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.
⁶ Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong City, Hong Kong.
⁷ Dr. Humeira Badsha Medical Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
⁸ Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
⁹ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India.
¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.

No abstract available

Keywords: access to information; communication; developing countries; medicine; social media; youth.

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