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Professionals' attitude and behavior in an accountability context: the physician's case
Get PDFAttitude en gedrag van professionals in de context van publieke en professionele verantwoording: de casus van de medisch specialist Veel professionals werken in een context waarin verwacht wordt dat zij publiek en professioneel verantwoording afleggen (accountability). Deze context heeft een functie in het bewaken en continu verbeteren van de kwaliteit van professioneel werk. Wanneer professionals niet handelen volgens de afgesproken maatschappelijke en professionele codes kan in het uiterste geval de bevoegdheid om het beroep uit te oefenen worden ingetrokken. Cliënten en anderen kunnen professionals voorts publiekelijk ter verantwoording roepen door hen aan te klagen. Het belang van het afleggen van professionele verantwoording wordt erkend, maar genereert ook druk. Dit proefschrift richt zich op de medisch specialist en beoogt meer inzicht te geven in zijn/haar attitude (gedachten en emoties) ten aanzien van deze verantwoordingscontext en hoe deze attitude van invloed is op zijn/haar professionele gedrag. Twee clusters van medisch specialisten werden geïdentificeerd: een cluster dat relatief meer bezorgd is en negatieve gedachten heeft over de mogelijkheid aangeklaagd te worden, en een cluster waarin deze kenmerken minder aanwezig zijn. Dit proefschrift laat zien hoe professionals laveren tussen de doelstellingen van de systemen van publieke en professionele verantwoording, het belang van patiënten en hun eigen doelstellingen. Deze eigen doelstellingen zijn gericht op behoud van reputatie, eigen werkresultaat en welzijn. Gepleit wordt voor een brede discussie over de verantwoordingscontext om de negatieve impact daarvan op zowel professionals als het publiek dat zij dienen, te verminderen
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
Improving organizational sustainability using a quality perspective
Get PDFThis article derives lessons from the quality approach for further developing the organizational sustainability approach. Taking a responsibility perspective on organizational sustainability, four issues emerge that need to be resolved, i.e. what is the responsibility?, what is the responsibility area?, who is involved in determining responsibilities and area?, and, in what way is the organization able to take care of these responsibilities?. The article explores in what way the quality approach has been dealing with these issues, which is the basis for some lessons for the sustainability approach. An important lesson is that the who is involved question should be leading. The stakeholder who is willing to pay for sustainability dominates answering the other three issues. With respect to the accounting practices, sustainability programmes could be inspired by the same need for protective and accountable behaviour as quality programmes, if the well-known negative aspects are minimized.
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
The usefulness and feasibility of a reflexivity method to improve clinical handover
No full textObjective The evaluation of the usefulness and feasibility of the reflexivity method (RM), which encourages dialogue and reflections between doctors, and enables change. Methods On the basis of literature research into effective medical professional learning and reflection, essential elements that stimulate reflection and learning were distinguished and converted into the basic elements of a method developed for this purpose, the RM. The method is used as a tool to stimulate reflection processes, which, in turn, will enable change. It was used 20 times in a large university medical centre in the Netherlands. Clinical handovers were the subject of reflection. The evaluation of the usefulness and feasibility of the RM is based on analysing the improvements realized by using the method, and a questionnaire to measure the experiences of the users of the method. Results Each of the 17 departments evaluated received 10 recommendations on average. Fifty-eight per cent of these were realized after 6-9 months, and 18% were in the working-out phase. Improvements in the structure, rules and protocols concerning handovers were realized as well as in the atmosphere. The users of the method evaluated the method overall positively: they appreciated the created context for reflection, that is, having a dialogue with a colleague working at the same hierarchical level, the non-normative character of the method and the 'doctor-ownership' of the method. They also reported an effect on their handling and thinking regarding handovers. Conclusions The RM seems to be a useful and feasible method to stimulate the doctors' reflection processes, resulting in implemented improvements
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