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Using quantitative and qualitative methods to inform public health decision-makers of patient preferences: a case study in improving access to general practice services
No full textThe Exemplar Programme for integrated out-of-hours care: evaluation report
No full textReport of an independent evaluation, by the University of Southampton for the Department of Health, of an exemplar programme for single call access to out-of-hours care through NHS Direct. This evaluation was commissioned to examine several aspects of the Programme including the experiences of patients, the performance and costs of the new services, and their impact on other immediate care providers
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
Physiotherapy extended scope of practice: who is doing what and why?
No full textObjectives To explore the range, drivers and perspectives of extended or enhanced practitioner roles within physiotherapy. Data sources Nineteen electronic databases, hand searches, bibliography scanning and personal contact were used to identify published and unpublished resources.
Review methods A systematic review using an expanded approach. Resources were included if they discussed extended scope of practice (intervention) in physiotherapy (profession) and outcome (for patients, other health professionals, and health services delivery) irrespective of patient group, language, year of publication (up to 2005), study design, or health care systems evaluated. All resources were screened against formal inclusion criteria for relevance. Information from relevant resources was extracted and details were entered into an Access database.
Results One hundred and fifty-two physiotherapy-related resources were identified, including seven which met appropriate quality standards (using Cochrane methodology). A meta-analysis was not performed due to the paucity of randomised controlled trials.
Conclusions Drivers for the roles in the 152 resources mainly included local or national service demands (34%). Most extended scope of practice roles reported included a form of non-invasive assessment (47%) or non-invasive treatment (37%) of patients that was more traditionally carried out by medical colleagues. None of the resources including data was (a) unsupportive of extended scope of practice or (b) mainly expressing concerns. This review has demonstrated overwhelming support for extended scope of practice; the vast majority of resources were supportive despite being largely descriptive or discursive in nature (76%). There is an urgent need for robust research in order to evaluate the expansion of extended scope of practice roles, underpin further development of those roles, and strengthen the evidence base of extended scope of practice in physiotherapy
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
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