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Efectividad del tratamiento conservador frente al tratamiento quirúrgico (APM) en una patología degenerativa meniscal de rodilla en personas adultas en los últimos 10 años: una revisión bibliográfica
No full textIntroduction. Meniscal injuries can be caused in a traumatic or degenerative way, and can be treated surgically, either by meniscectomy (the most common in adults), meniscal repair or meniscal reconstruction, or by physiotherapy treatment. Meniscectomy and physiotherapy present beneficial results independently, in people older than 35 years old, but it is necessary to analyze which treatment produces better results.
Objectives. To analyze the effectiveness of the physiotherapy treatment against meniscectomy regarding the degenerative meniscus pathology according mainly to the functionality, and the knee pain, the adverse effects or economic costs.
Methodology. The search for randomized clinical trials in the Web of Science, Pubmed and Scopus databases is carried out. Articles with less than 10-years-old are chose, which compare the surgery treatment against the physiotherapy treatment in people older than 35-year-old, who present meniscal degeneration. The risk of bias of these articles is analyzed according to the PEDro scale.
Results. 158 articles were found, and after the screening, six articles were choosing. In each article, knee function and pain are analyzed at different times of measurement, without finding significant differences. The economic cost is also analyzed, without finding differences in the serious effects, and finding some minor effects after physiotherapy.Conclusion. For this type of patients, the physiotherapy does not show any superiority against the surgery treatment in the knee function and pain, and in the serious adverse effects, but there is a difference in the economic cost and in the minor adverse effects. More studies are need in order to identify the people who need the surgery since the diagnosis, and to analyze the comparison between these two treatments regarding the meniscal injuries with traumatic origin.Introducción. Las lesiones meniscales se pueden ocasionar de forma traumática o degenerativa y pueden ser tratadas quirúrgicamente, ya sea por meniscectomía (la más común en adultos), reparación o reconstrucción meniscal, o por tratamiento fisioterápico. Meniscectomía y fisioterapia presentan resultados beneficiosos por separado en personas mayores de 35 años, pero se necesita analizar qué tratamiento produce mejores resultados.
Objetivos. Analizar la efectividad del tratamiento fisioterápico frente a la meniscectomía en la patología degenerativa del menisco según la funcionalidad, principalmente, y el dolor de rodilla, los efectos adversos o costes económicos.
Metodología. Se realiza la búsqueda de ensayos clínicos aleatorizados en las bases de datos Web of Science, Pubmed y Scopus. Se escogen artículos con menos de 10 años de antigüedad que comparan el tratamiento quirúrgico frente al fisioterápico en personas mayores de 35 años que presentan degeneración meniscal. El riesgo de sesgo de estos artículos se analiza según la escala PEDro.
Resultados. Se encontraron 158 artículos, y tras el cribado se eligieron 6 artículos. En cada uno, se analizan, en diferentes momentos de medición, la función y dolor de rodilla, sin encontrar diferencias significativas, el coste económico con un total de 2000€ más en el grupo de la meniscectomía y los efectos adversos, sin encontrar diferencias en los efectos graves y con algún efecto leve tras la fisioterapia.
Conclusión. Para este tipo de pacientes, la fisioterapia no demuestra superioridad frente al tratamiento quirúrgico en la función y dolor de rodilla y efectos adversos graves, pero existe diferencia en el coste económico y efectos adversos leves. Se necesitan más estudios para identificar a las personas que necesitan desde el diagnóstico la cirugía y analizar la comparación de estos tratamientos en las lesiones meniscales de origen traumático
Efectividad del tratamiento conservador frente al tratamiento quirúrgico (APM) en una patología degenerativa meniscal de rodilla en personas adultas en los últimos 10 años: una revisión bibliográfica
No full textIntroduction. Meniscal injuries can be caused in a traumatic or degenerative way, and can be treated surgically, either by meniscectomy (the most common in adults), meniscal repair or meniscal reconstruction, or by physiotherapy treatment. Meniscectomy and physiotherapy present beneficial results independently, in people older than 35 years old, but it is necessary to analyze which treatment produces better results.
Objectives. To analyze the effectiveness of the physiotherapy treatment against meniscectomy regarding the degenerative meniscus pathology according mainly to the functionality, and the knee pain, the adverse effects or economic costs.
Methodology. The search for randomized clinical trials in the Web of Science, Pubmed and Scopus databases is carried out. Articles with less than 10-years-old are chose, which compare the surgery treatment against the physiotherapy treatment in people older than 35-year-old, who present meniscal degeneration. The risk of bias of these articles is analyzed according to the PEDro scale.
Results. 158 articles were found, and after the screening, six articles were choosing. In each article, knee function and pain are analyzed at different times of measurement, without finding significant differences. The economic cost is also analyzed, without finding differences in the serious effects, and finding some minor effects after physiotherapy.Conclusion. For this type of patients, the physiotherapy does not show any superiority against the surgery treatment in the knee function and pain, and in the serious adverse effects, but there is a difference in the economic cost and in the minor adverse effects. More studies are need in order to identify the people who need the surgery since the diagnosis, and to analyze the comparison between these two treatments regarding the meniscal injuries with traumatic origin.Introducción. Las lesiones meniscales se pueden ocasionar de forma traumática o degenerativa y pueden ser tratadas quirúrgicamente, ya sea por meniscectomía (la más común en adultos), reparación o reconstrucción meniscal, o por tratamiento fisioterápico. Meniscectomía y fisioterapia presentan resultados beneficiosos por separado en personas mayores de 35 años, pero se necesita analizar qué tratamiento produce mejores resultados.
Objetivos. Analizar la efectividad del tratamiento fisioterápico frente a la meniscectomía en la patología degenerativa del menisco según la funcionalidad, principalmente, y el dolor de rodilla, los efectos adversos o costes económicos.
Metodología. Se realiza la búsqueda de ensayos clínicos aleatorizados en las bases de datos Web of Science, Pubmed y Scopus. Se escogen artículos con menos de 10 años de antigüedad que comparan el tratamiento quirúrgico frente al fisioterápico en personas mayores de 35 años que presentan degeneración meniscal. El riesgo de sesgo de estos artículos se analiza según la escala PEDro.
Resultados. Se encontraron 158 artículos, y tras el cribado se eligieron 6 artículos. En cada uno, se analizan, en diferentes momentos de medición, la función y dolor de rodilla, sin encontrar diferencias significativas, el coste económico con un total de 2000€ más en el grupo de la meniscectomía y los efectos adversos, sin encontrar diferencias en los efectos graves y con algún efecto leve tras la fisioterapia.
Conclusión. Para este tipo de pacientes, la fisioterapia no demuestra superioridad frente al tratamiento quirúrgico en la función y dolor de rodilla y efectos adversos graves, pero existe diferencia en el coste económico y efectos adversos leves. Se necesitan más estudios para identificar a las personas que necesitan desde el diagnóstico la cirugía y analizar la comparación de estos tratamientos en las lesiones meniscales de origen traumático
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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