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Contribution à la validation d'instruments de mesure de la dépendance des personnes âgées
No full textRésumé.<p>Introduction.<p>Le premier chapitre de l’introduction expose les problèmes posés à la sécurité sociale par le vieillissement de la population et plus particulièrement par le développement de la dépendance des personnes âgées. Ces problèmes sont illustrés par l’évolution des dépenses en soins de santé pour les aides aux actes de la vie journalière en institutions d’hébergement des personnes âgées, et à domicile. <p>Le deuxième chapitre décrit les instruments d’évaluation qui sont étudiés dans la présente dissertation. En effet, en Belgique, le financement des soins à la dépendance est réalisé sur base d’une évaluation à l’aide d’une échelle de l’INAMI ;une allocation à la personne âgée peut être obtenue par les personnes âgées dont la dépendance est alors évaluée à l’aide de l’échelle de la prévoyance sociale que nous appellerons aussi APA. Nous les comparons à l’outil d’évaluation utilisé en France et dénommé AGGIR pour autonomie gérontologique, groupes iso-resources.<p>Méthodes et populations.<p>Méthodes.<p>Nous validons les trois instruments sur le plan du construit à l’aide la Classification Internationale du Fonctionnement (CIF) de l’OMS. La validité est évaluée de différentes manières :validité concurrentielle entre les trois instruments ;validité concomitante des trois instruments par comparaison aux temps de soins nécessaires par les méthodes de corrélation, leur capacité de discriminer des catégories de dépendance ;la fidélité des instruments est également étudiée. <p>Populations<p>Quatre enquêtes ont été réalisée :la première en institutions de personnes âgées, la seconde à domicile, la troisième à domicile et la quatrième en institutions de personnes âgées avec la collaboration de différents professionnels :infirmières soignantes, infirmiers conseils de mutualité et l’auteur de la dissertation.<p>Résultats.<p>La troisième partie de la dissertation expose les résultats démographiques et des tests de validation.<p>Discussion.<p>La quatrième partie évalue les résultats. L’échelle de l’INAMI est de conception ancienne pour son contenu. Sa validité est suffisante pour étudier les charges en soins de populations de patients mais insuffisantes pour l’évaluation des besoins individuels, car elle n’évalue pas les besoins pour les actes instrumentaux de la vie journalière.<p>L’échelle APA a une mauvaise validité de contenu ;sa validité de construit est la moins bonne des trois instruments étudiés. Sa fidélité est médiocre. Cette échelle est à déconseiller.<p>La grille AGGIR a une validité de contenu moderne et bonne, une bonne validité de construit et une bonne fidélité.<p>Conclusions.<p>Des trois instruments étudiés, la grille AGGIR est la plus performante et permet à la fois le financement des soins à des populations des patients et l’évaluation de critères d’éligibilité pour l’octroi d’avantages sociaux.Doctorat en sciences médicalesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublishe
Le certificat médical en matière d'assurance maladie-invalidité
No full textPhysicians have to complete medical certificates required by the sickness and incapacity insurance in Belgium. Certificate for incapacity for work allows the worker to take a rest needed by his health state. It is a part of the medical treatment. Incapacity for work is defined differently in the two main social legislations in our country: the legal frame concerning employed workers and the other one concerning free workers. In both legislations however, it is important that practitioners give the useful information to the advisor doctor of the insurance sickness fund. Making so, he helps his patient with coping with the controls imposed by the law. Using official forms is not compulsory but helps the physician to complete correctly an incapacity for work certificate. In health care area, certificates are needed to obtain reimbursement of treatments. The same concern will guide the practitioner when he completes these certificates.SCOPUS: re.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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