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The importance of patient-reported outcomes in cancer studies
No full textIntroduction: Cancer incidence is increasing; one in two people in the UK are expected to develop cancer during their lifetime. However, survival rates of people living with cancer have improved over the last few decades. More than 50% of all UK cancer patients survive for beyond 10 years, this rate has doubled in the last 40 years.Areas covered: This article provides a scientific review of the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) to assess the short and longer term impact of cancer and treatment on patient quality of life and symptoms.Expert commentary: There is increasing recognition that, in addition to survival and other clinical metrics, we need to understand more about the impact that cancer and its treatment has on the everyday lives of people living with and beyond cancer. Patients must have access to information around quality of life and survival with which they can make more informed decisions about their care. We need to understand more about the natural history of recovery and wellbeing and the contributory factors to identify those who are not doing well and to understand how we can support them better, plan appropriate services and support patients in making choices about treatment
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
Putting patients at the centre: including patients’ perspective into UK kidney care and research.: A roadmap for collecting electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs)
No full textDispelling 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
Nutritional Self-management of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Cocreated Qualitative Synthesis
No full textRationale & Objective
Effective nutritional self-management is essential to reducing the risk of morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, the most effective approach for delivering dietary interventions and supporting behavioural change remains uncertain. To inform future service delivery, a systematic qualitative evidence synthesis was conducted to understand patients’ experiences of their nutritional self-management of CKD.
Study Design
Systematic review.
Setting & Study Populations
Adults with CKD stages 1-5.
Search Strategy & Sources
MEDLINE, PsychInfo, and CINALH were searched from inception to 3 July 2023. Google Scholar and Web of Science were used for citation searching.
Data Extraction
All qualitative results from primary qualitative and mixed-method studies.
Analytical Approach
Thematic synthesis.
Results
Ninety-two studies involving 2,924 adults met the inclusion criteria across all stages. Studies reported experiences of multiple stages and modalities of treatment of CKD in 23 countries. Three themes and 8 sub-themes were identified related to nutritional self-management: navigating dietary advice (receiving advice, quality of advice, tailoring of advice), living a new life (mourning an old life, trial and error, enough is enough (re)gaining control) and diet
as a social construct (social influences over management, stigma and isolation). Nutritional self-management in CKD is complex and multifaceted. Patients face significant problems in
navigating dietary advice, adjusting to lifestyle changes, and managing social influences.
Limitations
Non-English language studies were excluded.
Conclusions
Adults living with CKD commonly face considerable challenges around dietary self management across all stages of CKD and all modalities in stage 5. Incorporating dietary advice is highly complex, and current dietary service delivery often does not adequately meet patients' needs, regardless of their geographical location, stage of CKD, or treatment modality
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
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