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Use of repeated point prevalence surveys for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial use: an Italian region experience
No full textBackground. Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) has a regional patient safety programme that involves all the public and private healthcare facilities. In this context infection control is one of the most important topics in particular the prevention and control of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) together with the management of antimicrobials.
Aim. The aim of our study was to collect data to evaluate the effectiveness of FVG infection control programmes and to set up the future steps.
Methods. In October 2011 all acute hospital of FVG participated to the ECDC European point prevalence survey (PPS) of HAI and antimicrobial use (AU). In October 2013 the PPS was repeated according to the ECDC protocol.
Results. Included patients were 3267 (2011) and 3360 (2013). HAI prevalence was 6.9% (2011) and 6.2% (2013), while AU was 40.7% (2011) and 39.0% (2013). Most important results were the decrease in 2013 of surgical site infection in the third level hospitals (19/1878) versus 2011 (37/1902) (OR 0.52 IC95% 0.30-0.90), the increase of pneumonia in 2013 in the first and second level hospitals (24/1105) versus 2011 (10/1023) (OR 2.22 IC95% 1.07-4.62) and the increase of one shot and less than 24 hours procedures for the surgical prophylaxis in 2013 (182/284) versus 2011 (181/322) (OR 1.39 IC95% 1.00-1.93). Discussion.The repeated use of ECDC PPS can be a very useful tool to provide valuable data, both to single healthcare facility and regional government, to evaluate the quality of care provided to patients and the impact of the implemented programmes. Making public these data can fulfil the 24/2011/EU directive
Utilizzo delle prevalenze ripetute per la sorveglianza delle Infezioni nelle Organizzazioni Sanitarie (IOS): l’esperienza del Friuli Venezia Giulia.
No full textObiettivi. Tra i programmi del governo clinico per la sicurezza del paziente della regione Friuli Venezia Giulia quello riguardante il controllo e la prevenzione delle infezioni ricopre un ruolo molto importante; in questo contesto una sorveglianza puntuale sulle Infezioni nelle Organizzazioni Sanitarie (IOS) e sull’utilizzo degli antibiotici (UA) estesa a livello regionale riveste un ruolo fondamentale per stimarne dimensioni e caratteristiche in modo da identificare le priorità e attuare azioni di miglioramento condivise. Metodi. Sono state eseguite due Point Prevalence Survey (PPS), la prima nell’ottobre 2011 e la seconda nell’ottobre 2013. Le rilevazioni hanno coinvolto tutte le strutture per acuti della regione sia pubbliche che private accreditate. In entrambe le rilevazioni è stato utilizzato il protocollo sviluppato per la PPS promossa dall’ECDC nel 2011. Prima di ogni PPS sono state organizzate due giornate formative sull’utilizzo del protocollo ECDC che hanno contribuito a formare circa 140 professionisti sanitari. Risultati. Nel 2011 i pazienti inclusi sono stati 3267 con una prevalenza di IOS del 6,9% e di UA del 40,7%, nel 2013 i pazienti inclusi sono stati 3360 con una prevalenza di IOS del 6,2% e di UA del 39%. Nel 2011 su un totale di 248 IOS le più frequenti sono state le infezioni delle vie urinarie (IVU) 62, le polmoniti 49 e le infezioni del sito chirurgico 42, nel 2013 su 223 IOS le più frequenti sono state le polmoniti 56, le IVU 54 e le sepsi 32. Discussione. L’utilizzo ripetuto delle PPS consente di valutare, a livello regionale l’impatto dei programmi in essere e di individuare le possibili aree di miglioramento, a livello delle singole aziende fornisce un valido strumento per il benchmark
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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