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sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768211051713 - Supplemental material for Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768211051713 for Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model by Matias Ortiz De Zarate, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Simon DS Fraser, Paul Roderick, Paul Rutter and Carmine Ornaghi in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine</p
Performance indicators for primary care groups an evidence based approach
No full textIn England primary care groups will have a key role in promoting the health and improving the health care of their local population.1 By April 1999 these groups, involving all primary care professionals, will provide and commission health care for roughly 100 000 people in each locality. Primary care groups will be accountable to health authorities and “will agree targets for improving health, health services and value for money.”1There will be several primary care groups in each district health authority. This new approach offers primary care the opportunity to further integrate health promotion and health care at the individual and population levels. The present UK government intends to manage the performance of the “new NHS”; the word performance appeared 88 times in its recent white paper.1 It has published a national framework for assessing performance as a consultation document,2and primary care groups within health authorities will be judged to have “performed” well on the basis of the indicators listed in table 1. Most are attributable in part to primary care, but only some are linked to interventions that will necessarily lead to improved health outcomes. The government has also proposed four targets for England in its green paper Our Healthier Nation.3 Approaches taken by health authorities, and presumably by primary care groups, will be “fully monitored by the Regional Offices of the NHS Executive.”3 These targets for reduced death rates from heart disease and stroke, cancer, suicide, and accidents are all outcome indicators but, again, are only partly attributable to primary care. <br/
Supplementary_Material_revision_0.1 – Supplemental material for Healthcare use, costs and quality of life in patients with end-stage kidney disease receiving conservative management: results from a multi-centre observational study (PACKS)
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Material_revision_0.1 for Healthcare use, costs and quality of life in patients with end-stage kidney disease receiving conservative management: results from a multi-centre observational study (PACKS) by Glenn Phair, Ashley Agus, Charles Normand, Kevin Brazil, Aine Burns, Paul Roderick, Alexander P Maxwell, Colin Thompson, Magdi Yaqoob and Helen Noble in Palliative Medicine</p
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
Health promotion in pre-service teacher education: effects of a pilot inter-professional curriculum change
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a curriculum change in the provision of health promotion in pre-service teacher education in a one-year postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) secondary course in one Higher Education Institution (HEI) in England.Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the iterative development process, from an initial survey and mapping of the existing pre-service teacher training programme, which provided an evidence base for the piloting of a new health promotion component in the curriculum, and its subsequent evaluation. Changes to the health promotion element of the curriculum reflect the programme philosophy which balances the requirements of a competency based curriculum with a more liberal approach to education and training in which pre-service teachers are expected to critically reflect on, and evaluate their practice. This work adopts a socio-constructivist approach to teacher education, in which teachers develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes by interacting with others through dialogue, and learning from more knowledgeable others in a cooperative and scaffolded manner.Findings – The paper presents the results of these changes and discusses implications for their sustainability. The changes made to the health promotion component of the programme and their implementation would not have been possible without the inter-professional collaboration that took place over three years.Originality/value – To the authors’ knowledge similar work involving a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to the development of a health education component of a pre-service teacher education curriculum has not been employed or reported
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
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