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Supporting family caregivers in the transition between hospital and their relative’s preferred place for end of life care
No full textSupporting family members in their relative’s transition from hospital to home for end of life care - A participatory learning and action (PLA) study to design and implement an evidence based brief intervention in hospital palliative care practice and to assess its usability and acceptability
No full textAim: The transition from hospital to home for end of life care (eolc) is anemotive time for family members, characterised by growing understanding that their relative is dying, getting things ready for discharge and continuing to provide support in hospital. This study aimed to implementestablished research evidence to support family members during this timeand to assess its use in practice.Methods: The research employed Participatory Learning and Action(PLA) methodology, underpinned by a validated implementation theory,Normalization Process Theory (NPT). Each PLA cycle addressed a NPTimplementation phase. Initial PLA cycles theoretically modelled a briefintervention from active components of tested support interventions, identified from systematic reviews and meta-analysis. In later cycles, a training package was developed to support the resulting short, structuredconversation. Both were clinically piloted with hospital palliative careteams in 3 acute hospital sites and rolled out to 7 additional sites, purposefully selected to include hospitals serving diverse populations. Qualitativedata were gathered via reflective discussions with clinicians during andafter implementation and via questionnaires and interviews with familymembers who had received the intervention. Data were analysed usingFramework Analysis. We were interested in whether the intervention wasusable in practice and whether it was acceptable to family members.Results: Practitioners found the intervention easy to adopt and embed inpractice, and that it facilitated family centred conversations about familydischarge concerns. Family members valued the focus on their needs andfound the conversations helped them consider discharge implications andhow to manage their concerns.Conclusion: This brief intervention is a unique evidence-based contribution to family eolc discharge practice. It is readily adopted into practiceand facilitates family-focused planning for eolc at home
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
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
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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