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A web-based incident reporting system : a two years’experience in an Italian research and teaching hospital
No full textBackground. A web-based incident reporting system (IRS) is a tool allowing healthcare workers to voluntary
and anonymously report adverse events/near misses. In 2010, this system was introduced in a research and
teaching hospital in metropolitan area in the North part of Italy, in order to detect errors and to learn from
failures in care delivery. The aim of this paper is to assess whether and how IRS has proved to be a valuable
tool to manage clinical risk and improve healthcare quality.
Materials and Methods. Adverse events are reported anonymously by staff members with the use of an
online template form available in the hospital intranet. We retrospectively reviewed the recorded data for
each incident/near miss reported between January 2011 and December 2012.
Results. The number of reported incidents/near misses was 521 in 2011 and 442 in 2012. In the two years
the admissions were 36.974 and 36.107 respectively. We noticed that nursing staff made more use of IRS
and that reported errors were basically related to prescription and administration of medications.
Conclusions. Much international literature reports that adverse events and near misses are 10% of
admissions. Our data are far from that number, thus meaning that a failure in reporting adverse events
exists. This consideration, together with the high number of near misses in comparison with occurred
errors, leads us to speculate that adverse events with serious consequences for patients are marginally
reported. Probably the lack of a strong leadership considering IRS as an instrument for improving quality
and operators’ reluctance to overcome the culture of blame may negatively affect IRS
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
High homogeneity solenoidal magnet for cesium frequency standard
Full text linkIn Cs frequency standards a zone of highly uniform magnetic flux density, lower in value of 0.1 T, is required. The magnetic homogeneity value is tied to the overall accuracy of the standard and, for an accuracy of 10-14, a design value 1 p.p.m. is required. For this purpose a resistive solenoid 700 mm long with a bore radius of 32.5 mm has been designed and built. This paper reports the design process, the measurements on the manufactured magnet and the shimming strategy used to reach the homogeneity target
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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