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Effectiveness of interdisciplinary interventions in paediatric chronic pain management: a systematic review and subset meta-analysis
No full textBackground Paediatric chronic pain is a significant problem that can have devastating impacts on quality of life. Multimodal interdisciplinary interventions are the mainstay of paediatric treatment. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the effectiveness of interdisciplinary interventions in the management of paediatric chronic pain. Methods Studies were identified via a search of nine databases. The search strategy included concept blocks pertaining to type of pain, study population, and type of intervention. Eligible studies reported the effects of an intervention co-ordinated by two or more healthcare professionals of different disciplines, and recruited a sample aged 22 yr or below with chronic pain. Twenty-eight studies were included, and 21 provided data for inclusion in between- and within-groups meta-analyses. Results Patients randomised to interdisciplinary interventions reported significantly lower pain intensity 0–1 month post-intervention compared with patients randomised to the control groups. Within-groups analysis of patients receiving interdisciplinary interventions showed significant improvements pre- to post-intervention in pain intensity, functional disability, anxiety, depression, catastrophising, school attendance, school functioning, and pain acceptance. Few differences were found between interventions delivered in inpatient vs outpatient settings. Significant heterogeneity due mainly to differing outcome variables and intervention content was found in most analyses. Conclusions Overall, interdisciplinary interventions show promise in providing a range of clinical benefits for children with chronic pain. Methodologically robust randomised controlled trials using standardised outcome measures are needed, however, to guide clinical care
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
Establishing Consensus on the Breakthrough Pain Assessment Questionnaire-Self Report (BTPAQ-SR) for Typically Developing Children and Young People (8–25 yrs) with Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Conditions: An International e-Delphi Study of Expert Healthcare Professionals
Full text linkBackground/Objectives: Breakthrough pain (BTP) is commonly experienced by children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. While over 50 tools exist for the assessment of breakthrough pain in adults, there is currently no standardised measure designed for use in paediatrics. To address this gap, the multi-phase BEACON clinical trial aims to develop the Breakthrough Pain Assessment Questionnaire (BTPAQ) for use with children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions aged 3 months to 25 years. The goal of the current study was to refine the self-report version (BTPAQ-SR) of the questionnaire through an international, sequential, electronic-Delphi process. Methods: Healthcare professionals with at least three years of clinical experience working with children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions were invited to complete an anonymous online survey. The alpha version of the BTPAQ-SR was developed from systematic reviews, qualitative interviews, and the BEACON Steering Group. It had a diagnostic algorithm (Part A) and 18 items (Part B); however, items that included multiple descriptors or options were separated and presented individually, resulting in 49 survey items being presented to participants. Participants rated the importance of all survey items to assess breakthrough pain and the frequency of presentation for a subset of 37 items. Results: Fifty-three healthcare professionals from nine different countries were recruited, the majority of whom were physicians or nurses. Of the 49 survey items, 46 (93.8%) reached the ≥70% consensus threshold for importance, and 31 (83.8%) of 37 reached consensus for frequency. In total, 42 survey items reached consensus for both importance and frequency. Conclusions: The findings from this study support the clinical need for the BTPAQ-SR, confirm its conceptual foundation, and justify its continued development. Next steps include cognitive interviews with children and young people and introduction to clinical care to assess the psychometric properties of the BTPAQ-SR, including its clinical utility, reliability, and validity
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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