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Innovating healthcare in the era of patient engagement: Challenges, opportunities & new trends
No full textMaking patients active participants in their healthcare is recognized as a crucial component of high-quality healthcare services, particularly in the treatment of chronic diseases. The growing understanding of the key role of patient engagement in improving healthy behaviours and clinical outcomes has led healthcare to search for innovative ways to foster individuals’ roles in the care process: patient engagement may lead to more responsive services and better outcomes of care by incorporating the patient’s values and preferences into care plans. While, patient (dis)engagement may produce a waste of healthcare resources and poor clinical outcomes, comprehensive patient engagement across the continuum of care still presents a challenging task for hospitals and health systems, as it requires not only redesigning current care approaches, but also working with patients to identify ways to integrate care management into daily routines and activities; with this aim, new technologies may play a fundamental role. Based on these premises, this chapter sets the ground for the topics presented in this book and introduces the main challenges that healthcare systems currently face. Within this framework, this chapter also highlight the reasons why healthcare professionals and managers must regard patient engagement as the key to redesigning healthcare and making it more sustainable at the economic, sociological, and psychological levels
Exploring the lived experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood in Italian women with congenital heart disease: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
No full textObjective This study explored the lived experiences of women with congenital heart disease (CHD) during pregnancy and early motherhood.
Design Qualitative study using semistructured interviews. Data were analysed according to interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Setting San Donato Milanese, Italy.
Participants 12 adult women during pregnancy or early
motherhood.
Results Three main themes emerged from the analysis
that were labelled as follows: ‘Being a woman with CHD’;
‘Being a mother with CHD’; and ‘Don’t be alone’. Mothers
described both positive and negative feelings about
their pregnancies and transitions from childless women
to mothers with CHD. They needed supportive care to
improve the management of their health during pregnancy
and early motherhood.
Conclusion This study explored the lived experiences of
women with CHD during pregnancy and early motherhood.
The emerged themes represent an initial framework for
implementing theory-grounded
educational and supportive
strategies that improve self-care,
engagement and quality
of life for women with CHD. Furthermore, the study’s
results provide guidance for operationalising the described
experiences into items and domains for future cross-national
surveys
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
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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