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Patient Safety in Taiwan: A Survey on Orthopedic Surgeons
No full textBackground/Purpose: Patient safety is an important issue in medical quality control. To our knowledge, no studies have been conducted to specifically address patient safety in surgery in Taiwan. The purposes of this study were to determine the incidence of surgical errors in Taiwan, to evaluate the effectiveness of a campaign to mark the planned operation site, and the factors that influence the frequency of this preoperative safety maneuver. Methods: In March 2004, each member of the Taiwan Orthopaedic Association was given a 12-question survey regarding wrong- site, wrong-patient, and wrong-procedure errors to provide baseline data. We then implemented a campaign to encourage orthopedic surgeons to mark the planned operation site (" Mark op site" campaign). A follow-up survey was done in October 2004, and the results of both surveys were compared. Results: On the second survey, the number of surgeons who marked the incision site had significantly increased (p < 0. 05), and the incidences of reported wrong-site (0.5%) and wrong-procedure errors (2.4%) were lower than on the first survey (4.8%, p < 0.05 and 5.6%, p < 0.05). On the second survey, preoperative marking of the incision site was significantly correlated with the location of the surgeon's practice. Conclusion: Orthopedic surgeons marked the incision sites more frequently after our campaign than before, suggesting that the campaign was effective in changing their behavior. In Taiwan, this campaign reduced the risk of wrong-site and wrong-procedure errors
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
A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Leadership Role and the Accumulation of Social Capital: A Study of Three Communities in Kaohsiung City
No full textCommunity development places emphasis on community members\ue2 cooperation, to which the role of a leader is a key factor. In other word, leadership has great impact on community development. Researchers look to gain a deeper understanding on leadership in community development. Through assessing their background, character, role-awareness and performance, as well as their social experience in the community setting, researchers examine and compare the social capital that each community leader accumulates.
To interpret quantified research result, this researcher engaged in literature review and in-depth interviews. In the three general surveys conducted, ninety community leaders were selected to answer the questionnaire survey. After analysis, they are categorized as natural leaders, hereditary leaders, situational leader, and behind-the-curtain leaders.
The research findings include: 1. different leader type results in different amount of social capital accumulated. 2. Social capital generated by leaders is different based upon their character. 3. Leader\ue2s role-awareness also influences the amount of social capital generated. 4. Leader\ue2s performance impacts the amount of social capital generated. 5. Leader\ue2s social experiences also influence the amount of social capital generated. 6. Gender difference impacts the amount of social capital generated. 7. Female are often behind-the-curtain leaders, thus they are often not as productive in social capital accumulation as compared to their male counterparts. 8. A regression model of social capital can be built based on the variables of community leader\ue2s role-awareness, performance and social experience.
This research has weakness in theoretical construct and methodological method. The author would like to propose some suggestions as follows. When doing research on this field, researchers are always limited by inevitable obstacles. A comparison among the districts in Kaohsiung is suggested to be conducted and later, a comparative analysis of community leaders between Taipei and Kaohsiung is to be followed. Moreover, there is little research regarding community leaders, let alone the character analysis of community leaders in terms of social capital. It is suggested that the occupation of the leader\ue2s spouse and the leader\ue2s devotion to community service be included in independent variables for the further research.
The author provides suggestions for further studies as follow:
1. Further researchers who have further interest in this field can adopt the questionnaires in this study to design their survey questionnaire.
2. The model of accumulating social capital can be used by the further researchers
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
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