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Patient education and communication
No full textNurses and allied health professionals play a key role in communicating and educating patients and informal carers. Comprehensive therapeutic patient education requires planning, delivery, evaluation, and documentation. Informal carers should be involved in all aspects of therapeutic education. Communication skills training for health professionals can improve patient satisfaction with care. Therapeutic education is more likely to be effective if best practice communication and teaching skills are applied in clinical practice which includes a learning needs assessment. Single sessions of therapeutic education are less effective than multiple sessions with follow-up. Problematic health literacy is a major obstacle to therapeutic patient education. Universal health literacy precautions should be implemented to reduce health inequalities. Effective therapeutic patient education has the potential to reduce unnecessary health resource use by patients and adverse events
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
Telehealth-based cardiac rehabilitation: a solution to the problem of access?
No full textThe benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) following a cardiac event are well established.1 Participation in a CR programme reduces cardiovascular risk factors, improves quality of life, increases adherence to cardioprotective medications and decreases morbidity and mortality.1 Importantly, these benefits have been demonstrated to be the same regardless of programme duration,2 whether they are delivered by a generalist or specialist,2 and whether they are delivered in a hospital or at home.3 Much of CR is delivered in a face-to-face, group-based setting, in a model that has not changed over the past two decades.
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
Smoke-free hospitals and the role of smoking cessation services.
No full textThe NHS must be smoke free by the end of 2006 (Department of Health, 2004). The necessary elements to introducing a smoke-free policy, which is workable and equitable, are the management of the policy and offering support to smokers. Smoking and second-hand smoking are responsible for many illnesses, premature deaths and reduced productivity. Employers have a responsibility to ensure the health of their employees by protecting them from exposure to cigarette smoke in the workplace. Although smoking restrictions in the workplace are popular, it is important to ensure good communication with everyone who will be affected, since there are many fears associated with the introduction of the policy. Help must be offered to people who wish to quit through behavioural and pharmacological interventions and support must also be given to the smoker who must abstain from smoking on the premises during work or hospital stay
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