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Evaluation of the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIS) by private practitioners in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
No full textTo determine the current practices of private practitioners for the
management of STIs in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, evaluation of
pharmacotherapy for STIs in private clinics and to ascertain the
management of STIs compared to standard guidelines. Methods: Data was
collected by self administered questionnaire for private practitioners,
which gathered information on their socio-demographic as well as
practice characteristics. Descriptive Statistical analysis was
performed by using SPSS for windows version 13.0. Results: Data was
collected from 78 practitioners. Most of the treatment choices
mentioned for the treatment of gonorrhea were inconsistent with the
guidelines. About 51.2% of practitioners did not screen their patients
for HIV/AIDS. Majority of private practitioners counseled their
patients about HIV/AIDS on irregular basis. A high percentage of 59%
did not informed health authorities about STI cases and 32.1% mentioned
that they did not use any guidelines. Conclusions: Management of STIs
by private practitioners with respect to selection of antibiotics,
patient counseling and case notification leaves a lot to be desired.
Current management practices can adversely impact on HIV/AIDS
transmission in the country. Interventions are needed to improve the
management practices of private practitioners
Evaluation of the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIS) by private practitioners in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Get PDFTo determine the current practices of private practitioners for the
management of STIs in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, evaluation of
pharmacotherapy for STIs in private clinics and to ascertain the
management of STIs compared to standard guidelines. Methods: Data was
collected by self administered questionnaire for private practitioners,
which gathered information on their socio-demographic as well as
practice characteristics. Descriptive Statistical analysis was
performed by using SPSS for windows version 13.0. Results: Data was
collected from 78 practitioners. Most of the treatment choices
mentioned for the treatment of gonorrhea were inconsistent with the
guidelines. About 51.2% of practitioners did not screen their patients
for HIV/AIDS. Majority of private practitioners counseled their
patients about HIV/AIDS on irregular basis. A high percentage of 59%
did not informed health authorities about STI cases and 32.1% mentioned
that they did not use any guidelines. Conclusions: Management of STIs
by private practitioners with respect to selection of antibiotics,
patient counseling and case notification leaves a lot to be desired.
Current management practices can adversely impact on HIV/AIDS
transmission in the country. Interventions are needed to improve the
management practices of private practitioners
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
Clinical Modalities And Therapeutic Outcomes; Between Ever-Smokers Versus Never-Smokers Of Tuberculosis Patients In Penang, Malaysia.
No full textAim: There is consistent evidence that tobacco smoking has been
implicated as a risk factor for tuberculosis infection, disease and
death. Study was aimed to identify the impact of smoking on
Tuberculosis (TB) clinical characteristics and treatment outcome and to
emphasize this association thus may be useful in the management of TB
cases. Method: The retrospective, observational and cross-sectional
cohort survey was done to compare disease characteristic and clinical
presentation during treatment of TB. Result: Five hundred twenty four
TB patients were consecutively recruited during the period of the
study. Of this, 250 [47.7%] were never smokers. Ever smoking TB
patients accounted for 274 [52.3%]. There were significant
relationships between smoking status of TB patient with race and
initial Mantoux test. But there were no significant association between
smoking habit and marital status, patients' identities, history of
chronic disease, history of contact to pulmonary TB patients and BCG
scar. Ever smoker TB patients' were four times more likely to have
slower smear conversion at two months compared to non-smoker
tuberculosis patients'. Conclusion: We found a high risk of death from
smoking induce tuberculosis. Treatment outcomes were not statistically
significant with/without smoking. It was seen that smoking is consider
as a risk factor for unfavorable outcomes among TB patients registered
in DOTS program in term of therapeutic compliance
Relationship between Hemodialysis Duration, Hemoglobin, and Creatinine of Hemodialysis Erythropoietin Vaccinated Patients with Covid-19
Get PDFChronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an abnormality of kidney function and structure, where the glomerular filtration rate is less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m² and kidney damage lasts more than 3 months. The purpose of the study was to clarify the relationship between the length of hemodialysis with Hemoglobin and Creatinine in Hemodialysis patients. The research design used was prospective and retrospective cohort. Retrospective for the period January 2022-January 2023, while for the prospective period February-April 2024. The sample size in this study using convinienvce sampling technique was 259. The results of the study showed that there was a significant relationship between the length of hemodialysis with hemoglobin and creatinine levels with a P-value of 0.001 <0.05
Clinical Modalities And Therapeutic Outcomes; Between Ever-Smokers Versus Never-Smokers Of Tuberculosis Patients In Penang, Malaysia.
Get PDFAim: There is consistent evidence that tobacco smoking has been
implicated as a risk factor for tuberculosis infection, disease and
death. Study was aimed to identify the impact of smoking on
Tuberculosis (TB) clinical characteristics and treatment outcome and to
emphasize this association thus may be useful in the management of TB
cases. Method: The retrospective, observational and cross-sectional
cohort survey was done to compare disease characteristic and clinical
presentation during treatment of TB. Result: Five hundred twenty four
TB patients were consecutively recruited during the period of the
study. Of this, 250 [47.7%] were never smokers. Ever smoking TB
patients accounted for 274 [52.3%]. There were significant
relationships between smoking status of TB patient with race and
initial Mantoux test. But there were no significant association between
smoking habit and marital status, patients' identities, history of
chronic disease, history of contact to pulmonary TB patients and BCG
scar. Ever smoker TB patients' were four times more likely to have
slower smear conversion at two months compared to non-smoker
tuberculosis patients'. Conclusion: We found a high risk of death from
smoking induce tuberculosis. Treatment outcomes were not statistically
significant with/without smoking. It was seen that smoking is consider
as a risk factor for unfavorable outcomes among TB patients registered
in DOTS program in term of therapeutic compliance
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
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