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Telemedicine and teledermatology between technological innovation and professional responsibility in Italy
No full textTelemedicine utilizes communication technologies to provide healthcare services remotely, significantly impacting dermatology through the transmission and analysis of body surface images. Despite its benefits, telemedicine faces challenges including the quality of tools, operator competence, privacy issues, and responsibility allocation in cases of errors. The Italian Code of Medical Deontology emphasizes safety, proportionality, and the necessity of in-person examinations for initial consultations. Teleconsultations, online visits, and telemonitoring are essential forms of telemedicine that must adhere to ethical guidelines and protect patient privacy. Legal frameworks such as the Gelli-Bianco Law mandate professional responsibility and insurance coverage for telemedicine practices, equating them with traditional medical services. Legal challenges include data protection, informed consent, and the distribution of responsibility among healthcare providers and technology operators. Telemedicine, including teledermatology, offers substantial benefits but should not replace traditional in-person consultations, particularly in complex cases like dermato-oncology. Successful implementation requires a balanced approach, prioritizing patient well-being and professional responsibility. In conclusion, telemedicine provides an opportunity to enhance healthcare delivery, extending beyond physical and geographical limitations. However, it must complement traditional practices to optimize healthcare outcomes, adhering to all ethical and legal standards. Telemedicine's success hinges on a common-sense approach that emphasizes patient well-being, professional responsibility, and the integration of technological innovations into routine healthcare
Danno alla persona di natura estetica in ambito civile
Full text linkIn current talk, a damage represent harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness. In the medical context a damage is an injury caused by a wound, a disease or a trauma, while in civil law, the technical sense of the term it is a delict committed in contempt, or outrage of any one, whereby his body, his dignity, or his reputation, is maliciously injured. Aesthetical damage is a classical example of how consequences of an injury may include physical hurt as well as damage to reputation or dignity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Dermatologia in ambito lavorativo
Full text linkThe main skin diseases in an occupational context are irritant and allergic contact dermatitis. These conditions are a very common cause of ill-health related to occupation. Despite a decrease of notifications to INAIL for occupational skin diseases in recent years, their burden is still high, so dermatologist may often be called for a consultation, giving his opinion about indemnity of the worker. This paper gives an overview of legal aspects concerning occupational dermatitis
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dermatologia e tatuaggi
Full text linkMedical-legal aspects of tatooing are of topical interest, concerning many matters of discussion. Tattooing is an invasive procedure and can be associated with infectious and noninfectious complications, expecially when done by inexperienced. This article emphasizes the need for legal regulation of tattooing
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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