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State of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions
No full textCapturing case complexity:is clinician selected dose of vocational rehabilitation related to questionnaire results?
Full text linkBACKGROUND: To establish an optimum dosage interdisciplinary vocational rehabilitation, it is important to be able to reliably and validly assess case complexity. Assessment of case complexity is currently clinician based because no validated means to assess case complexity is presently available. Indices assumed to associate with case complexity can contribute to the choice of dosage. The objective of this study was to explore the extent in which results of questionnaires were associated with the choice of treatment dosage in vocational rehabilitation.METHODS: Design: cross-sectional study of observational data. The study population consisted of workers on part-time or full-time sick leave due to chronic multifactorial problems. Thousand eighty-nine patients who were referred to a privately owned organization with outpatient vocational rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands between July 2016 and March 2017 were allocated to one of the three programs based on case complexity as determined by clinicians based on clinical interview and questionnaires.RESULTS: Questionnaires accounted for 13% of the variance in the total group, 13% in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (n = 662) and 29% in patients with chronic fatigue (n = 235).CONCLUSION: The results of the questionnaires contribute little in the assessment of case complexity and dose recommendation. Implications for Rehabilitation Assessment of case complexity of patients with chronic multifactorial complaints and disability is complex. The results of this study suggest that case complexity and choice of treatment dose is slightly explained by questionnaire results. It is largely determined on heuristics developed by knowledge and experience of clinicians. No reliable and validated means to assess case complexity is presently available in the field of rehabilitation and optimum treatment dose cannot be determined transparently. Routinely collected clinical data of baseline characteristics, process measures and results are a valuable source that can be used to answer research questions.</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
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
Physical activity should be the primary intervention for individuals living with chronic pain : A position paper from the European Pain Federation (EFIC) 'On the Move' Task Force.
Full text linkBackground: There is clear evidence demonstrating the benefits of physical activity (PA) on pain and overall health, however, PA is challenging for many individuals living with chronic pain. Even non-exercise specialists can (cost) effectively promote PA, but many health professionals report a number of barriers in providing guidance on PA, suggesting that it is not consistently promoted. This expert position paper summarizes the evidence and provides five recommendations for health professionals to assess, advise and support individuals living with any chronic pain condition with a long life expectancy in adopting and sustaining physically active lifestyles. Methods: This position paper was prepared by the ‘On The Move’ Task Force of the European Pain Federation EFIC. Final recommendations were endorsed by the European Pain Forum, Pain Alliance Europe and the Executive Board of EFIC. Results: We recommend that all health professionals (1) Take a history of the persons' PA levels, and put PA on the agenda, (2) Advise that PA is important and safe for individuals living with chronic pain, (3) Deliver a brief PA intervention and support individuals living with chronic pain in becoming physically active, (4) Discuss acceptable levels of PA-related soreness and pain and (5) Provide ongoing support in staying physically active. Significance: Physical activity is safe and offers several advantages, including general health benefits, low risk of side effects, low cost and not requiring access to healthcare. Adoption of these recommendations can improve the quality of care and life of individuals living with chronic pain and reduce their overall health risks.</p
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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