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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
Institutionalize patient related communication in the Emergency Department of Hamad General Hospital through the use of SBAR approach
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Background: It has been found that 89% of the ED staff in HGH has very low knowledge on the approach of SBAR, due to which they don't converse it accordingly with other staff especially during endorsements, face-face & critical call scenarios.
Aim: To increase and standardize the usage of SBAR as a communication tool among the clinical staff in the ED of high to 100% by FEB 2016.
Methods: The project was done in an iterative four-step continuous improvement method through careful monitoring in various areas of ED to collect the baseline data. SBAR champions were chosen from each area to facilitate and coordinate the project to most of ED. SBAR endorsement form was introduced for the nurses between shifts to notify information. Nurse educators & quality reviewers decided on educational sessions for the ED-nurses which consisted of role play, scenario based & simulation training for the nurses to make them understand the relevance of SBAR. A monitoring tool was developed for secret audit on SBAR usage to know the efficacy in the area.
Results: There has been a spike in the usage of SBAR by the nurses during the endorsement time and between the work schedules. With the help of the CN's and SBAR champions who regularly change from day to day, Careful monitoring has been placed in various areas of the ED which has led to such significant achievement. As of now the measurement and the testing has been done with the nurses, physicians, ECG technicians, respiratory therapists and also the quality reviewers. we are soon planning to include ems for the same training by end of February, we will make sure the whole ED will be talking & reporting in SBAR.
Conclusions: Interprofessional communication activity is needed at the entry level for all professionals. SBAR - teachable skill that is recognized by all healthcare workers as safe effective method of communicating among providers. We will soon spread this communication between units & during transfers also. Registration number: 0000-0003-0866-6512.</jats:p
Evaluation of an Intervention to Decrease False Positive Blood Culture Contamination Rates in Emergency Department
No full textVariations 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
Institutionalize Patient Related Communication in the Emergency Department of Hamad General Hospital through the Use of Sbar Communication Pattern
No full textAppropriate 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
Evaluation of an intervention to decrease false positive blood culture contamination rates in Emergency Department
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Background: The HGH Microbiology lab indicator showed that our blood culture contamination rate has been consistently higher than the international benchmark thereby we aim to reduce it in the critical area of Emergency Department by 50% by the end of July 2015 and at least 90% by end of February 2016.
Methods: A pilot area was chosen in the Emergency Department to do a study for 44 weeks after which blood culture kits (previously trolleys & trays were used) containing sterile gloves, masks, and blood culture supplies were introduced into the Critical area of ED-HGH in August 2015. Training included- new instructions to have two staff members present when drawing blood cultures (preceptor-preceptee methodology) thereby prohibiting drawing blood cultures from pre-existing lines and proper follow-up of every step. False positive blood culture rates were measured in the weeks preceding and the weeks following, this intervention.
Results: In the 8 weeks following the intervention, the average false positive blood culture contamination rate in HGH ED reached 1.9% (which was the benchmark) out of 318 blood culture samples. In the 6 months preceding, the blood culture contamination rates ranged from 4% to 1.5% each month.
Conclusions: Blood culture kits and educational training on proper technique resulted in significant reduction (>60%) in the false positive blood culture rate in the Critical areas of ED-HGH. Studies at other institutions have suggested that reducing the false positive blood culture rate could decrease costs by preventing unnecessary hospitalizations and administration of unnecessary antibiotics, as well as helping to prevent the development of multi-drug resistant organisms. 0000-0003-0866-6512 0000-0002-1057-2438.</jats:p
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
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