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DESCRIPTION OF PATIENTS' COMPLIANCE IN ASEER REGION, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
Get PDFMedication non-adherence can cause impairments that interfere with self-care activities in individuals who suffer from multiple comorbid diseases that require careful management. The objective of this study is to assess and describe medication adherence in patients of Aseer Region of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Samples of 416 patients in the outpatient department at Abha General Hospital and Aseer Central Hospital are selected randomly. The patients were interviewed using seven a self-administered close-ended anonymous questionnaire. Only descriptive statistics is reported in this study for analyze the compliance category. The participants in the study were 71% (295 out of 416 patients) of participants were females, while 29% (121 out of 416) were males. The participants’ age ranges between 18-60 years. The adherence level was 85%. The major reasons for non-adherence were forgetfulness and feeling good. The study revealed the appropriate level of adherence by participants. The study also revealed that pharmacists and other healthcare professional intervention will help to improve further the medication adherence with possible fruitful therapeutic outcomes of the patients.Key words: Non-adherence patient, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaMedication non-adherence can cause impairments that interfere with self-care activities in individuals who suffer from multiple comorbid diseases that require careful management. The objective of this study is to assess and describe medication adherence in patients of Aseer Region of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Samples of 416 patients in the outpatient department at Abha General Hospital and Aseer Central Hospital are selected randomly. The patients were interviewed using seven a self-administered close-ended anonymous questionnaire. Only descriptive statistics is reported in this study for analyze the compliance category. The participants in the study were 71% (295 out of 416 patients) of participants were females, while 29% (121 out of 416) were males. The participants’ age ranges between 18-60 years. The adherence level was 85%. The major reasons for non-adherence were forgetfulness and feeling good. The study revealed the appropriate level of adherence by participants. The study also revealed that pharmacists and other healthcare professional intervention will help to improve further the medication adherence with possible fruitful therapeutic outcomes of the patients.Key words: Non-adherence patient, Kingdom of Saudi Arabi
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
VALIDATION METHOD FOR MEASURING SIMVASTATIN IN HUMAN PLASMA BY HPLC-UV AND ITS APPLICATION IN STUDY SIMVASTATIN STABILITY IN PLASMA AND WORKING SOLUTION
Get PDFObjective:The aim of this study by HPLC-UV method for determination of simvastatin in human plasma has been developed, after extraction by ethyl acetate and hexane (90/10%, v/v) using lovastatin as internal standard.Methodology:Solutes are separated on a C18 column with mobile phase consist a mixture of acetonitrile-water (51/49%, v/v) mL/min and UV detection at 238 nm. The calibration curve was linear from 20 to 1000 ng/mL (r = 0.9996).Result:The intra-day coefficients of variation were less than 6.00% and the accuracies were between 97.52 and 104.80% for human control plasma containing 50, 200 and 500 ng/mL of simvastatin, respectively. The inter-day coefficients of variation were less than 9.00% and the accuracies were between 101.65 and 105.16% for human control plasma containing 50, 200 and 500 ng/mL of simvastatin, respectively. The entire run time for analysis was only 11 min. The limit of quantitation of 20 ng/mL was achieved.Conclusion:The stability studies of simvastatin in human plasma for two months at -850C, in acetonitrile and water for one month at 40C, did not show any significant degradation. Key wordsHPLC-UV, simvastatin and human plasm
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
ASIAN FOOD (CARBOHYDRATE, PROTEIN, FAT) INCREASE SIMVASTATIN BIOAVAILABILITY ESPECIALLY IN MALAYSIAN SUBJECTS
Get PDFSimvastatin 40 mg tablet was evaluated with Malaysian food in 9 healthy Malaysian male volunteers in a randomized, single dose, two-way crossover study. Simvastatin with Malaysian food produced higher AUC0-24, Cmax and Tmax values, as compared with fasting condition. The Ke, t1/2 and Cl did not show any significant difference between fasting and food conditions. However, food delayed gastric emptying and gastrointestinal transit, the longer gastric residence time of the simvastatin is offset by the rise in the pH of gastrointestinal tract. Food may be did not affect the increase of splanchnic hepatic blood flow by decreasing first pass metabolism of simvastatin. Food may be had the effect on the increasing of pH of gastrointestinal tract which lead to increase the stability of simvastatin in gastrointestinal fluid and its absorption into blood circulation.Key wordsAsian food, simvastatin bioavailabilityÂ
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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