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Safety and effcacy of subcutaneous administration of Beta-Lactams: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. (In: The 20th European Doctoral Conference in Nursing Science – EDCNS)
No full textIntroduction: Beta-lactam antibiotics are widely used for bacterial infections due to their efficacy. Subcutaneous administration, beneficial for patients with oral intolerance or poor venous access, shows efficacy comparable to intravenous routes. This method could extend antibiotic use beyond hospitals, improving healthcare. The study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous beta-lactam administration compared to other routes or placebo.
Methods: This study was developed according to the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. The research question defined: population as individuals of all ages; the intervention as subcutaneous administration of beta-lactams; the comparison as no intervention or placebo or other routes of administration; the outcomes as safety and efficacy; the study design as clinical trials and prospective observational studies. Online databases were accessed: Pubmed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, EMBASE, Scopus and Clinicaltrial.gov. The resulting records were blindly checked by two researchers and disagreements were resolved by a third researcher. The
same process was carried out independently for data extraction. Results: The search strategy identified 2953 records, of which 534 were checked for duplicates. At the end of the process, thirty-one records were eligible for full-text evaluation. The data extracted from the records suggest satisfactory results for the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous administration of some antibiotics. However, there is considerable imprecision due to the eterogeneity of the studies. Conclusion: This systematic review and meta-analysis adds promising new information about subcutaneous administration of antibiotics, but further randomised clinical trials are needed to gain a more complete understanding of safety and efficacy
The concept of „Routine care“ and „Usual care“ in the nursing discipline: a multi-method study. (in: The 20th European Doctoral Conference in Nursing Science – EDCNS)
No full textIntroduction: The term “Routine” is used in various fields of
knowledge with multiple connotations. In nursing, it remains
poor developed and inconsistently defined in literature. This
study aims to define “Routine care” and “Usual care” in nursing,
exploring their implications in clinical, research and educational
contexts.
Methods: A multi-method approach. In the first phase, a
systematic review synthesized definition of “Routine care” and
“Usual care” following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic
Reviews and Meta-Analysis—guidelines. The second
phase involved semi-structured interviews with multiple stakeholders
(nurses, physicians, patients, caregiver, students) to
explore the concept at the practical levels.
Results: From 27,364 studies, the 10 articles included identified
16 thematic areas defining “Routine care” and “Usual
care”. “Routine care” was mainly characterized by repeated
activities over time. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were
conducted, involving 7 nursing students, 4 nurse manager, 2
patients, 2 caregivers and 4 physicians, who reported heterogeneity
in the interpretation of these concepts.
Conclusion: Concepts of “usual care” and “routine care” are
not equivalent still and appear poorly conceptually and practically
defined. “Routine care” are oriented towards work efficiency,
and it is influenced by temporal, relational, cultural and
ritual factors. The “usual care” varies considerably between
contexts and individuals reflecting mainly the current standards
of care. There is a need to further develop these concepts
according also to their relevance in comparative or interventional
studies
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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