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Medical dermal filler procedures pre questionnaire
No full textIntroduction: Dermal filler complications can arise due to unpredictable causes, operator-dependent causes, or at other times are caused by unwanted reactions related to the patient's pre-existing clinical conditions or co morbidities that favor an unsatisfactory outcome of the aesthetic procedure.
The aim of this study is to formulate, based on a critical review of the literature and the personal experience of the authors, an anamnestic questionnaire to be completed by patients requiring treatment with dermal filler, in order to facilitate the identification of patients not suitable for the procedure.
Materials and Methods: Medline and PubMed databases were searched on April 25th, 2021 using the terms: “Anamnesis”, “Complications”, “Medical history” and “Dermal filler”. The search covered the 2011-2021 decade.
From the publications found, following the reading of the abstract, those which did not meet the inclusion criteria were eliminated. From the ones remaining, the entire article was analyzed in order to highlight the presence of anamnestic indications that contraindicated the aesthetic procedure. Only articles available in English were considered for this review.
Results: The PubMed search showed 478 results for "dermal filler" and "complications", 0 for "dermal filler" and "anamnesis", 26 for "dermal filler" and "medical history". A total of 458 articles were excluded based on analyses of abstracts and full texts. A total of 20 articles were eligible for the study. Active or chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, previous treatments with unknown filler, history of allergies, conditions that cause Koebner response, coagulopathies, and some medical treatments represent known contraindications.
Conclusions: Following the literature review a pre-treatment questionnaire is proposed to help doctors screen out patients who may present contraindications to dermal filler treatment
How do health authorities inform about general practitioner selection? Analysis of Italian Websites
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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
Methodologies for determining staffing needs in healthcare: systematic literature review
Full text linkThe determination of staffing needs in healthcare is not just
calculating the optimal number of professionals but is defining
how the professional contingent accompanies the development
of the healthcare organisation and of the population’s care
needs. This research investigates the existence of a gold
standard for determining health personnel requirements. We
perform a systematic literature review to explore several
approaches worldwide, examining a wide range of contextual
variables, useful for the definition of an omni-comprehensive
approach. A total of 557 articles was initially detected, then
reduced to 57 after excluding everything not related to
healthcare context and staff planning models. Results do not
reveal a recognized standard for determining staffing needs.
Approaches to the definition of staffing standards are mainly
ex-ante (31%), based on the characteristics of specific models
and organisational needs, or ex-post (62%), based on
production analysis and historical trends. Most of these refer
to the medical and nursing category (68.4%), while the
minority proposes a multi-professional approach (17.5%).
This review highlights innovative approaches based on
algorithms which, starting from historical data, are adjusted
by moderating key variables such as contextual factors,
healthcare organisation models and professional attributes.
The review suggests:
1. Develop and share a unique tool for defining standards
based on several variables that identify the characteristics of the
context
2. Use up-to-date information flows and quality data
3. Consider a multi-professional approach
4. Adopt a long-term vision and continuous dialogue with the
training process
It is clear the need to develop a tool for the definition of
personnel requirements in line with internal and external
changes in the health system. Therefore, such models need to
account for an adequate number of variables, useful to identify
the characteristics of the overall context.
Key messages:
The development of staffing needs estimates must necessarily rely on a certain level of standardisation, but at the same
time must take into account the variability characterising
different contexts.
In order to respond to recent demographic and epidemiological trends, it is crucial to include in the model skill mix
and task shifting strategies involving health professionals as a
whole
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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