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Assessing Obstetrician-Gynecologist Attitudes and Knowledge of Primary Care
Full text linkObstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) is unique among medical specialties in that it offers both comprehensive surgical and outpatient clinical care. As a provider of health care for women1 the specialty of Ob/gyn has also been referred to as a primary care specialty, like family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. To formally address this focus, curriculum changes to residency training implemented in 1997 mandated six months of primary care training over the four year residency. Programs were given liberty to accomplish this change in a variety of ways. Since this change debate has continued as to what Obstetrician-Gynecologists consider primary care and if they themselves see the specialty as serving the primary care needs of women. Since the time of these changes, much work has been done to look at the attitudes and practice patterns of Ob/Gyns in terms of primary care services. What has not been studied is the definition of primary care ascribed by most Ob/Gyn practitioners and the affect this has on their attitudes towards Ob/Gyn as a primary care specialty. This study hopes to address this issue by allowing participants to define the characteristics they feel are important for a primary care specialty and then describe which of these falls within the scope of the obstetric and gynecology specialty. A large factor in the PCP designation is the ability to diagnose and manage common conditions without specialty referral. This study will look at this particular aspect of primary care by assessing practice patterns of participants in detail. Lastly, even if most participants feel that Ob/Gyn is a primary care specialty, they will be ineffective if they do not have the skills needed to practice in this capacity. Little work has been done to assess the level of primary care knowledge since the revision of the curriculum in 1997. The study will assess knowledge of specific primary care screening topics among residents, fellows and attendings. This pilot study will be conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.Master of Public Healt
Not Immune: A Research Plan for Better Understanding the Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive Women Age 50 and Older
Full text linkBackground: This paper describes a literature review of peer-reviewed articles researching specific stressors, coping strategies and self perceived quality of life among HIV positive women age 50 and older. Following the literature review, a research plan for a qualitative study aiming to investigate these issues is explained, including preliminary data. Methods of Research Project: Qualitative in-depth interviews are being conducted among HIV-positive women age 50 and older who are current patients in the UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic. Interviews are tape-recorded, transcribed and coded by the primary investigator. Analysis for emergent themes is conducted following a grounded theory research approach. Results: Analyses on the first five interviews highlight important considerations for the remainder of the study. Issues regarding HIV status disclosure, the perceived lack of public acknowledgement regarding risks among older women, and the importance of individual faith as a coping strategy are common themes in the interviews. Conclusion: Completion of the study will continue to explain and characterize the preliminary results, and may point to previously unestablished means by which to approach and provide for this particular population.Master of Public Healt
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
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