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Logistic collaboration and improvement of the quality of care: Case of "Hôpital du Mali" (the Hospital of Mali)
No full textIn recent years, Mali has initiated a reform of its hospitals in order to ameliorate the quality of care. Within the frame of a management vision, this research consists in trying to understand how inter-organizational logistics, through the analysis of physical (medicines, materials, and equipment) flows and information flows, contributes to improving the quality of care within the Hospital of Mali. The analysis of semi-structured interviews has allowed us to discuss research proposals from the literature review and their degree of acceptance. Then, we have formulated some recommendations on logistic best practices to improve the quality of care. Specially, we made these recommendations toward hospital, distribution centre, authorities and national agency for evaluation. In doing so, our research contributes to understand the logistical issues in Africa, particularly in Mali. It also contributes to the literature on hospital logistics and gives way to future research in the field of healthcare logistics
Logistic collaboration and improvement of the quality of care : case of Mali hospital
No full textCes dernières années, le Mali a initié une série de réformes visant à améliorer la qualité des soins dans les hôpitaux publics. Cette recherche consiste dans une vision managériale à comprendre comment la collaboration logistique inter-organisationnelle sur les flux physiques (médicaments, matériels et équipements) et d’informations contribue à l’amélioration de la qualité des soins. L’analyse du contenu des entretiens semi-directifs nous a permis de discuter les cinq propositions de recherche issues de la revue de littérature et leur degré d’acceptation. Des recommandations à l’endroit de nombreuses structures (hôpital du Mali, PPM, DPM, pouvoirs publics et ANEH) ont été formulées afin d’améliorer la pratique logistique et la qualité des soins prodigués aux patients. Ce faisant, notre recherche contribue ainsi à la littérature sur la logistique hospitalière et ouvre la voie à d’autres recherches futures dans le domaine de la logistique dans les structures de soins.In recent years, Mali has initiated a reform of hospital. This research consists in the managerial visions, try to understand how inter-organizational logistic through the analysis of physical flows (drugs, materials and equipment) and information flows contribute to improve the quality of care within Mali hospital.The analysis of the semi-structured interviews allowed us to discuss the research proposals from the literature review and their degree of acceptance. After, we formulated some recommendations on logistic practices to improve the quality of care. In doing so, our research contributes to the literature on hospital logistics and give the way for other future research in the field of healthcare logistics
Logistic collaboration: a strategy to improve hospital performance and health quality in Mali
No full textThis research investigates healthcare logistics issues in Mali. With the aims to understand, how logistic collaboration between partners can contribute to improve the quality of care and hospital performance. We used a qualitative method base on a deductive approach. The study was conducted by using semi-structure interviews. We also gathered several sources such as academic articles and key reports. The study finds that logistic collaborations can help reduce hospital costs, increase hospital performance and improve the quality of care. As the government of Mali is currently working on healthcare reforms, these findings can assist them to understand the crucial role of healthcare logistics
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
Contribution de la logistique à la qualité des soins dans les hôpitaux du Mali : une évaluation de l’hôpital du Mali
Full text linkCette recherche s’inscrit dans la dynamique de comprendre les enjeux de la logistique hospitalière au Mali. Il s’agit d’une étude transversale descriptive à visée évaluative couplée à un sondage d’opinion. L’étude porte sur les moyens logistiques de l’hôpital du Mali (les infrastructures, les équipements et matériels, les médicaments et consommables) et la qualité de soins. La collecte des données s’est faite à travers des entretiens semi directifs, un questionnaire pour les patients ainsi que l’analyse des documents et rapports de l’hôpital du Mali. L’étude tente d’évaluer le niveau de la qualité des soins à travers les moyens logistique déployé au sein de l’hôpital du Mali
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
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