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Exploring potential roles of pharmacist in cancer palliative care unit of public tertiary care hospitals in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Ahlam Sundus
Get PDFDespite increased awareness measures taken, burden of cancer is increasing worldwide. In addition to conventional anti-cancer treatment, palliative care is indicated to improve the quality of life (Qol) of cancer patients and their families. With the evolution of pharmacy practice, the role of pharmacist was extended to introduce their services at clinical level. It was stipulated that in some parts of the world idea of integration of the pharmacist in this patient-care team was not fully embraced. This qualitative study aimed to explore potential roles of the clinical pharmacists in cancer palliative care settings in public tertiary care hospitals by highlighting potential areas suggesting integration of pharmacists in cancer palliative care team to improvise patient-oriented care. Face-to-face interviews were conducted from physicians, oncologists, nurses and
pharmacists to explore their views regarding integration of pharmacists within cancer palliative care team. Cancer palliative care patients and their caregivers were also interviewed in order to bring forward their experiences during hospitalisation due to cancer. The interviews were conducted at Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) and Palliative Care Unit (PCU), Hospital Selayang (HS). Interviews were audio-taped, transcribed verbatim which were then subjected to thematic analysis. Findings of the study suggested that doctors and nurses welcomed the idea of integration of the pharmacists within wards to constitute a triad for the improvement of patient care within cancer palliative care. Responding pharmacists mentioned about the scarcity of pharmacy staff at the respective study sites. On the other hand, it was found that majority of patients and caregivers were totally unaware of the existence of the pharmacist and their purpose in the oncology ward and PCU. However, policies are yet to be designed to give clinical pharmacy profession an adequate representation within hospitals
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
Addressing drug-related problems among community-dwelling older adults in Malaysia: the way forward
No full textkoamabayili/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
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