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Exploring the Use of the Timed Up and Go Test to Identify Patient Fall Risk in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit
Get PDFBackground: Patient falls during hospitalization influence healthcare costs and quality, and hospitals are mandated to complete fall risk assessments on all patients. Inpatient geriatric psychiatry units have the highest fall rates in the acute care setting, and most falls in this population occur during the mobility tasks of transfers and ambulation. The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test includes these two specific functional tasks, and has been used to predict falls in other geriatric populations, but has never been tested in an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit. The purpose of this study was to determine if the TUG is a predictive tool to identify high fall risk patients in the inpatient geriatric psychiatry setting. Methods: The study was a retrospective chart review using a between groups design. The sample was obtained from patients admitted to one inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit during the four month study period. Results: The total sample size was N = 62 and included 33 non-fallers and 29 fallers. The mean age of fallers (M = 75.79, SD = 9.60) was not significantly different from the age of non-fallers (M = 74.03, SD = 7.62), p = .424. Both groups had higher proportions of female subjects; non-faller 75.8% (n = 25) female and faller 69.0% (n = 20) female. Most non-fallers (84.8%) completed the TUG testing without an assistive device, while most fallers (48.3%) used a walker. A significant difference was found between the TUG times of non-fallers and fallers, U = 737.00, z = 3.65, p = \u3c.001, r = .46. Fallers took longer to complete the TUG test (Mdn = 26.48) than non-fallers (Mdn = 13.56). The TUG time predictor variable was statistically significant, p = .002. Increasing TUG times were associated with an increased likelihood of patient falls (OR = 1.10). The optimal TUG cut-off score was 16.46 seconds, with 79.3% sensitivity and 72.7% specificity. Conclusions: The TUG was found to be a predictive tool to identify high fall risk patients in the inpatient geriatric psychiatry setting. A cut-off time of 16.46 seconds is recommended to identify non-fallers from fallers in this patient population
Physical therapist student and clinical instructor perceptions of the Clinical Performance Instrument 3.0 (CPI 3.0): an exploratory descriptive study
Get PDFPurpose: The Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) has been adopted by US academic physical therapist (PT) programs as a key measure of clinical education performance. In May 2023, the APTA released an updated version, the CPI 3.0, which included significant changes. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of students (SPTs) and clinical instructors (CIs) who were the initial users of the CPI 3.0.
Methods: Retrospective study utilizing an investigator-created electronic survey meant to measure the constructs of technology, scoring, and stakeholder burden compared to the previous version. The survey was sent out to five cohorts of students and their CIs who used the CPI 3.0 for a full-time clinical experience during the inaugural release. IRB approval was obtained.
Results: Students (n = 63) and CIs (n = 47) reported that the CPI 3.0 platform was easy to access (95.2% SPT; 76.6% CI) and navigate (93.5% SPT; 72.3% CI). However, submission problems were experienced. More than 90% of students and CIs agreed that the CPI 3.0 was able to capture an accurate reflection of student performance. In addition, 91.1% of CIs reported that the tool would enable them to capture student performance difficulties that would put them at risk of not passing. Those that used the previous version of the CPI agreed that the CPI 3.0 was less time consuming (64.3% SPT; 76.3% CI) and burdensome (60.5% SPT; 68.4% CI).
Conclusion: Students and CIs perceived the CPI 3.0 favorably in terms of ability to capture performance, time to complete, and overall burden
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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