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I costi delle strutture residenziali psichiatriche italiane
No full textObjective - The aims of this study are: (1) to estimate patients' costs in Italian non hospital Residential Facilities (RF); (2) to analyse the relationship between the costs of care received by residents and patients' or facilities characteristics. Method - The PROGRES study included all Italian private and public RF (1370) with more than 4 beds. Of those, 265 were selected through stratified random sampling to be included in phase 2. Data were obtained through a schedule filled in by the facility manager. Additional information about costs related to the use of Community Psychiatric Service (CPS) by residents has also been collected. The cost components of residential accommodation include the costs of the RF, of the CPS, of general medical care, of the informal assistance provided by family or friends, and other non-medical costs. Results - The mean annual cost of stay in RFs was approximately 34,000 Euro, and it was related to the RF size and to staffing levels. Both RF and CPS are more expensive in the north of Italy, as compared to the center and the south. Costs were lower for older patients. CPS costs are lower when RF staffing levels are higher. Conclusions - In general, patients in RFs cost between 20,000 and 40,000 Euro per year; to this sum, additional 2,000-6,000 Euros per year should be added to include the costs of care provided outside the facility. Both RFs and CPS have different costs depending on the geographical area where the facilities are located, and staffing levels. Changes in CPS costs seem to be related to patients' characteristics
Le strutture residenziali per anziani: una ricerca in cinque Regioni Italiane. Il progetto Progres-Anziani
No full textObjective: to survey all Residential Facilities (RFs) for the elderly
in five Italian Regions (Calabria, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria and
Veneto), and to evaluate their logistic and organizational characteristics,
staff and residents’ features.
Design: structured interviews were conducted with RF managers.
Setting: all RFs operating in the five Italian Regions.
Results: in the five Regions there are 853 RFs with an average of
198.0 beds per 10000 elderly inhabitants; this rate shows a marked
variability between different Regions. The mean number of beds
in the RFs is 59.8 (median: 34). The large majority (96%) have
a 24-hour staff cover. In terms of management, the RFs are handled
by local municipalities (29%), religious non-profit associations
(24%), and other non-profit organizations (21%). In the
754 RFs surveyed (91.1% of the sample) there were 24.456 workers
employed; even the number of staff in each facility shows a great
variability. The mean number of workers directly involved in residents’
care is 27.8, and the ratio residents/staff is 2.1, which becomes
lower (1.8) if we consider the ratio non-independent residents/
staff. In the 754 RFs there were 42,687 residents, with an
average of 53.5 elderly residents for each facility, and 3.2 residents
below the age of 65; the mean age of the resident sample was 79.3
years, and there is an high proportion of residents with neurological
(including dementia), psychiatric or medical disorders.
Conclusion: there is marked variability in the provision of residential
places between different Regions; many other characteristics
of RFs for the elderly, including staff/residents ratios, show a
similar variability. Most RFs host elderly with a variety of neurological,
psychiatric and medical disorders. The future waves of the
project will shed light on many features of these institutions, which
care for 2.1% of the elderly population in Italy and may serve larger
proportions of the elderly in the future
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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