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VALIDAZIONE DEL DPILQ PER IL PAZIENTE DIABETICO IN TERAPIA INSULINICA
No full textINTRODUZIONE
La terapia insulinica mediante l’uso del microinfusore (CSII – Continous Subcutaneous Insulin
Infusion) nei pazienti affetti da T1D e T2D è il percorso terapeutico sempre più diffuso. Nel
periodo 2005-2013 si registra in Italia un incremento del 396% dei pazienti che ne
beneficiano. In letteratura non ci sono evidenze, linee guida o raccomandazioni che
consentano al clinico di individuare il profilo standard del paziente idoneo al passaggio
dalla terapia multiniettiva (MDI - Multiple Daily Insulin Injection) a quella con CSII. Ad oggi
infatti, la scelta della terapia CSII nel paziente diabetico è raccomandata solo quando i
dati clinici del paziente evidenziano una scarsa effectiveness nel controllo glicemico.
Scopo della presente ricerca è validare il DPILQ per studiare il way of life del paziente
diabetico insulino-trattato.
METODI
Uno studio pilota è stato condotto per validare il Diabetic Patient Insulin-treatment Lifestyle
Questionnaire (DPILQ). Il DPILQ, contenente 25 item per misurare tre costrutti: percezione
della salute, soddisfazione dell’uso dei dispositivi medici e stile di vita, è stato somministrato
dallo stesso intervistatore ad un campione casuale di 33 pazienti, di età compresa tra i 18
e i 65 anni in terapia insulinica, estratti dal database del Centro di Diabetologia della ASL5
di Oristano. La consistenza interna del DPILQ è stata valutata con l’Alpha di Cronbach (α).
RISULTATI
Il valore di α=0,85 calcolato per l’intero questionario ed il valore di α=0,83 calcolato sugli
item che descrivono lo stile di vita del paziente, indicano un’ottima affidabilità dello
strumento.
CONCLUSIONI
L’alta affidabilità del questionario consente di utilizzare il DPILQ per ottenere informazioni
utili a definire il profilo del paziente diabetico e poter condurre studi epidemiologici ad hoc
volti a migliorare la qualità di vita, esaltando così lo stato di benessere del paziente in
trattamento insulinico e ridurre i costi della spesa sanitaria
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
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
Multi-criteria decision analysis to redesign an Italian Clinical Engineering Service under specific needs and regulation requirement
No full textThe aim of this study is to fulfill the need of reengineering the Clinical Engineering Service in an Italian ASL (Local Health Authority) located in Sardinia, in accordance with the Italian regulations for healthcare.
Even if methods for processes redesigning in healthcare organizations are available in the literature, there are no recent evidences of their application in Clinical Engineering Services.
Among the multi-criteria techniques, in this work PAPRIKA was used, since it is an easy-to-use and intuitive method for multi- criteria decision making, based on decision-makers’ preferences.
We identified the decision makers’ criteria to be fulfilled and four different preference levels for each criterion, as inputs of the method. Moreover four different scenarios were identified and, for each scenario and criterion, the decision makers selected the most suitable level. In order to reduce the number of pairwise comparisons among the preference levels associated to the identified criteria, the online software 1000minds, implementing the PAPRIKA method, was used.
After 460 steps, the software allowed to rank the four possible scenarios. The application of the method allowed choosing the best solution for the ASL and it represents a good way for decision making, even though the number of questions is still high
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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