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Ellis B and Neil Caldwell
No full textEllis B Caldwell is pictured with his son Neil. Ellis is married to Bertha Blackburn
A study to compare the reliability of composite finger flexion with goniometry for measurement of range of motion in the hand
No full textOBJECTIVE: To establish the intra- and inter-rater reliability of composite finger flexion (CFF), and to compare this with goniometry. DESIGN: Fifty-one physiotherapists and occupational therapists took part in the study. The hand of a normal subject was splinted in three different positions. Using a goniometer and a ruler alternately, each therapist measured both the proximal interphalangeal joint and CFF of three digits, following a standardized protocol. This process was repeated three times.SETTING: Eighteen NHS hospital sites in the UK.RESULTS: The two measurement methods produced different ranges and standard deviations for each digit. The repeatability coefficient shows that repeated intra-rater goniometric measures fall within 4-5 degrees of each other 95% of the time. Inter-rater goniometric measures fall within 7-9 degrees. Repeated intra-rater CFF measures fall within 5-6 mm of each other, whereas inter-rater fall within 7-9 mm. The influence of occupation, experience in hand therapy, years of practice and routine use were found to have no effect on reliability. Scaling of the two methods of measurement allowed comparison between them to be made. CFF and goniometry are equally reliable when comparing inter-rater reliability, but goniometry displays less variability than composite finger flexion for intra-rater measurements. CONCLUSION: In this study involving a subject with normal joints, goniometry is more reliable than CFF when only one measurer is involved. However, CFF may be a useful alternative where multiple joint measures are required, or when goniometry is impracticable
The models of development of extended scope of practice of hand therapists in the United Kingdom
No full textFactors determining the current use of physiotherapy assistants
No full textPhysiotherapy assistants form approximately 20% of the work force within physiotherapy departments and account for a large proportion of the delivery of physiotherapy care. There is great interest in developing the scope of practice of physiotherapy assistants and evidence that this is under way. Little is known about the factors determining use of physiotherapy assistants and their views on their future role. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the role of physiotherapy assistants was changing, identify the factors that affect the development of the physiotherapy assistants' role and determine the views of physiotherapy assistants and physiotherapists on the future work of physiotherapy assistants. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a stratified random sample of 18 physiotherapy assistants from the South and West Region and separately, with their 18 physiotherapy supervisors. The physiotherapy assistants worked in a range of settings – elderly care, paediatrics, outpatients and primary care. Analysis of the interviews showed that there was variation in scope of activities of physiotherapy assistants and in the level of supervision. Supervision was reduced primarily in particular specialty areas, such as elderly and primary care. Changes were primarily locally determined. A change or shortage of qualified staff was regarded as being instrumental in the development of practice. Training, levels of responsibility and supervision, and the development of generic workers were issues of concern for this changing workforce
Delphi study of the role parameters and requirements of extended scope practice in hand therapy in the United Kingdom
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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
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
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