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Bone health in breast cancer survivors
No full textThe objective of this paper is to carry out a systemic review of the
literature investigating issues related to bone health in survivors of
breast cancer. Given the fact that only a fraction of women with breast
cancer receive appropriate assessment of their bone health, it is hoped
that this review will help raise awareness of bone health concerns in
this patient population. Articles published in the English language
addressing issues related to bone health in breast cancer were accessed
using Pubmed database. Studies were searched using keywords like:
"Osteoporosis", "osteopenia", "bone health", "breast cancer",
"denosumab" and "bisphosphonates". Current evidence suggests that women
who survive their breast cancer are at high risk for significant bone
loss. Recent clinical guidelines recommend assessment of bone mineral
density (BMD) in high-risk patients. Nonpharmacologic interventions
including lifestyle changes, vitamin D and calcium supplements are
extremely important. Bisphosphonates, in both oral and parenteral
formulations, are increasingly used while new agents, like denosumab,
have recently been approved. Due to the widespread use of screening
mammography and early detection programs leading to breast cancer
diagnosis at a much earlier stage and the recent introduction of more
effective anticancer therapy, more women are surviving their breast
cancer, which highlights the need for survivorship programs that
address issues like bone health. Many recent professional societies are
addressing these issues and updating their recommendations and
guidelines
Bone health in breast cancer survivors
No full textThe objective of this paper is to carry out a systemic review of the
literature investigating issues related to bone health in survivors of
breast cancer. Given the fact that only a fraction of women with breast
cancer receive appropriate assessment of their bone health, it is hoped
that this review will help raise awareness of bone health concerns in
this patient population. Articles published in the English language
addressing issues related to bone health in breast cancer were accessed
using Pubmed database. Studies were searched using keywords like:
"Osteoporosis", "osteopenia", "bone health", "breast cancer",
"denosumab" and "bisphosphonates". Current evidence suggests that women
who survive their breast cancer are at high risk for significant bone
loss. Recent clinical guidelines recommend assessment of bone mineral
density (BMD) in high-risk patients. Nonpharmacologic interventions
including lifestyle changes, vitamin D and calcium supplements are
extremely important. Bisphosphonates, in both oral and parenteral
formulations, are increasingly used while new agents, like denosumab,
have recently been approved. Due to the widespread use of screening
mammography and early detection programs leading to breast cancer
diagnosis at a much earlier stage and the recent introduction of more
effective anticancer therapy, more women are surviving their breast
cancer, which highlights the need for survivorship programs that
address issues like bone health. Many recent professional societies are
addressing these issues and updating their recommendations and
guidelines
Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for hospitalized medical patients, current status and strategies to improve
No full textVenous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising life-threatening pulmonary embolism (PE) and its precursor deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), is commonly encountered problem. Although most patients survive DVT, they often develop serious and costly long-term complications. Both unfractionated heparin and low molecular weight heparins significantly reduce the incidence of VTE and its associated complications. Despite the evidence demonstrating significant benefit of VTE prophylaxis in acutely ill medical patients, several registries have shown significant underutilization. This underutilization indicates the need for educational and audit programs in order to increase the number of medical patients receiving appropriate prophylaxis. Many health advocacy groups and policy makers are paying more attention to VTE prophylaxis; the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission recently endorsed strict VTE risk assessment evaluation for each patient upon admission and regularly thereafter. In the article, all major studies addressing this issue in medical patients have been reviewed from the PubMed. The current status of VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients is addressed and some improvement strategies are discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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
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