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Effectiveness of critical care discharge information in supporting early recovery from critical illness
No full textBackgroundDischarge from critical care can lead to substantial distress and uncertainty for patients and relatives. Providing information may alleviate or reduce this distress, but the best way to do this is unclear. Aims This review assesses research evidence addressing the effectiveness of written and/or verbal information for adult patients or their relatives upon discharge from critical care to identify the factors likely to influence its impact on physical and psychological outcomes.MethodsWe undertook a narrative critical review of published research. Medline, Embase, PyschInfo, Web of Science, The British Nursing Index and the Cochrane Library as well as key web sites and reference lists were searched for relevant research published between 1990-2011,which explored the impact of written or verbal critical care discharge information. Methodological appraisal of studies was undertaken using tools provided by the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. ResultsWe found eight publications reporting four independent studies: one multi-centre randomised controlled trial, two quasi-experimental studies and a descriptive qualitative study. In total 133 patients, 193 relatives and 33 nurses were studied. Results showed beneficial physical effects for patients from using a self-help manual, and improved knowledge and increased satisfaction for relatives for combined written and verbal information. Evidence on anxiety was mixed and the value of a written booklet alone was unclear. However the evidence base was of low overall quality. Implications for practiceCritical care discharge information should: • Combine written and verbal information• Take account of physical and psychological vulnerabilities • Be individualized and flexible • Incorporate opportunities for user participation and reflectionConclusionsCurrent evidence suggests that individualised information incorporating user participation and opportunities for reflection may improve the psycho-social well-being of both patients and relatives. Further development and evaluation of strategies that combine effective verbal and written information is required. <br/
Involving patients and families in critical care research and quality improvement
No full textEditorial for Nursing in Critical Care
Undertaking ethical research and innovation practice, which informs and enhances health care delivery, is a priority for me as a clinical‐academic nurse and for all health care staff. I hope that sharing my reflections in this editorial on the growing practice of public involvement in the field of critical care will contribute to a critical consideration of its use and a curiosity that leads to high‐quality, safe and effective practice.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bench, S. (2019), Involving patients and families in critical care research and quality improvement. Nurs Crit Care, 24: 67-69. doi:10.1111/nicc.12418 , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12418. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Version
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Critical care nursing workforce: Global imperatives, innovations and future-proofing – A call for papers (Editorial)
No full textThis editorial is a Call for Papers for a special issue dedicated to emerging critical care nursing workforce issues and challenges.
The world’s population is ageing, and the number of persons aged 65 years or over projected to more than double (United Nations, 2019). Meeting the healthcare needs of the growing older population is likely a key concern for governments and health systems around the world (Allen, 2020). Additionally, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes account for 71% of all global deaths (World Health Organization (World Health Organization., 2019). The 21st century has also seen a potentially fatal combination of newly-discovered diseases, such as SARS, MERS and most recently COVID-19 (Wang et al, 2020) and the re-emergence of infectious diseases once thought eradicated (World Health Organization, 2018).No Full Tex
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