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Decisiones éticas en la asignación de recursos escasos en unidades de cuidados intensivos durante la pandemia
No full textDurante los primeros meses de la pandemia por coronavirus 2019, muchos centros y sistemas de atención sanitaria se vieron abrumados por la cantidad de pacientes y la necesidad de proporcionar los recursos necesarios para atenderlos. Objetivo: Analizar las decisiones éticas en la asignación de recursos escasos en la unidad de cuidados intensivos durante la pandemia COVID-19. Método: Se realizó un estudio cualitativo, transversal y descriptivo, considerando como muestra a 20 profesionales de salud que laboraron en la UCI. Se empleó fue una guía de entrevista conformada por 5 preguntas con opción de respuesta abierta sobre los criterios éticos para la toma de decisiones ante la escasez de recursos y el análisis de datos se realizó mediante el software ATLAS. Ti. Resultados: Se abordaron las siguientes categorías: Justicia, beneficencia, bioseguridad, carga laboral y escasez de recursos. En las respuestas de los profesionales de salud se observó que la ética fue un factor importante en la asignación de recursos escasos para enfrentar enfermedades emergentes como el COVID-19 en donde la justicia se visualizó como un comportamiento ético relevante en la UCI. Además, hicieron énfasis en la maximización de los beneficios hacia los pacientes, independientemente de la escasez de recursos. Conclusiones: La asignación de recursos limitados y la modificación de las prácticas clínicas durante emergencias sanitarias pueden resultar desconocidas para algunos licenciados en enfermería, médicos residentes y médicos especialistas. Sin embargo, los principios de justicia y beneficencia fueron esenciales para las decisiones de racionamiento durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en la UC
Decisiones éticas en la asignación de recursos escasos en unidades de cuidados intensivos durante la pandemia
Get PDFRationale: during the first months of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic, many healthcare centers and systems were overwhelmed by the number of patients and the need to provide the resources needed to care for them.Objective: to analyze the ethical decisions in the allocation of scarce resources in the intensive care unit in an Ecuadorian hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: a qualitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out with 20 health professionals who worked in the ICU. An interview guide with 5 questions was used, with an open-ended answer option on the ethical criteria for decision- making in the face of scarce resources and data analysis was carried out using ATLAS.Ti. software.Results: the categories addressed were justice, charity, biosafety, workload and resource scarcity. In the responses of health professionals, it was observed that ethics was an important factor in allocating scarce resources to address emerging diseases such as COVID-19 where justice was visualized as a relevant ethical behaviour in the ICU. In addition, they emphasized the maximization of benefits to patients regardless of resource scarcity. Conclusions: the allocation of limited resources and changes in clinical practices during health emergencies may be unknown to some health professionals. However, the principles of justice and charity were essential for rationing decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic at the ICU.Fundamentación: durante los primeros meses de la pandemia por COVID-19, muchos centros y sistemas de atención sanitaria se vieron abrumados por la cantidad de pacientes y la necesidad de proporcionar los recursos necesarios para atenderlos.Objetivo: analizar las decisiones éticas en la asignación de recursos escasos en la unidad de cuidados intensivos en un hospital ecuatoriano durante la pandemia COVID-19. Método: se realizó un estudio cualitativo, transversal y descriptivo, considerando como muestra a 20 profesionales de salud que laboraron en la UCI. Se empleó una guía de entrevista conformada por 5 preguntas, con opción de respuesta abierta sobre los criterios éticos para la toma de decisiones ante la escasez de recursos, realizando el análisis de datos mediante el software ATLAS. Ti.Resultados: se abordaron las siguientes categorías: justicia, beneficencia, bioseguridad, carga laboral y escasez de recursos. En las respuestas de los profesionales de salud se observó que la ética fue un factor importante en la asignación de recursos escasos para enfrentar enfermedades emergentes como el COVID-19, en donde la justicia se visualizó como un comportamiento ético relevante en la UCI. Además, hicieron énfasis en la maximización de los beneficios hacia los pacientes, independientemente de la escasez de recursos. Conclusiones: la asignación de recursos limitados y la modificación de las prácticas clínicas durante emergencias sanitarias pueden resultar desconocidas para algunos profesionales de la salud. Sin embargo, los principios de justicia y beneficencia fueron esenciales para las decisiones de racionamiento durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en la UCI
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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