Healthcare participatory action using evidence based critical realist heutagogy

19 August, 2025

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Respected teachers and friends,

Please peer review this work hosted by the journal here:

https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/81950

Be critical and hard hitting and spare no one! It is based on participatory action using critical realist heutagogy(more about it here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40674544/ around a single patient's open access online data.

It's written by a multidisciplinary team comprising of clinical engineers, medical students and patients turned advocates who were inspired by the journey of the above journal and it's editor in chief.

For peer reviewing, you will have to click on the 'peer review me' link given and submit your peer review in the system. The process is easy and quick, and shouldn't be a deterrent for reviewing.

regards,

rb

HIFA profile: Rakesh Biswas is Professor at Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences Narketpally Hyderabad. He has worked in India, Nepal and Malaysia and his interests include Medical Cognition, Clinical problem solving and case based reasoning applied to patient centred health care and health education. Honorary appointments: Deputy Editor, BMJ Case Reports, UK. http://casereports.bmj.com/site/about/ ; Editor in Chief of the International Journal of User Driven Healthcare, in the USA.

www.igi-global.com/ijudh rakesh7biswas AT gmail.com