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Case study of physiotherapy treatment of a patient with the diagnosis Ankle Distortion
No full textTitle: Physiotherapeutic treatment of a patient with ankle distortion Nazev: Fyzioterapeutická léčba pacienta s zkreslení kotníku Author: Vryonides Panayiotis Location of clinical practice: C.L.P.A (Centrum léčby pohybového aparátu) Aim The purpose of my bachelor thesis is to understand the structure and function of the ankle joint as well to discuss the most common injuries concerning the ankle. Moreover a day-to-day rehabilitation program will be presented concerning ankle distortion. Summary The bachelor thesis consists of two major parts, the general part where an extensive analysis concerning the diagnosis (ankle distortion), the anatomy, biomechanics and common injuries takes place. Moreover it follows the practical part, which also is the main part of the thesis. It consist the anamnesis, all the initial and final examinations and the day after day rehabilitation procedures and progress. Regarding the therapeutic session, they were composed with stability exercises, sensomotoric stimulation, strengthening and also from physical therapy laser. Results Subsequently of the eight rehabilitation sessions that I had with my patient, he fully recovers. The pain and the limitation on the ankle joint that he had wasn't enormous as a result to succeed great results in that limited time that we had. A..
Measurement tools used to assess unfinished nursing care: A systematic review of psychometric properties
No full textBackground: Different tools have been developed and validated to measure unfinished nursing care. However, no systematic review of the psychometric properties has been performed describing the quality of the methods used to estimate their validity. Aims: (a) To identify tools measuring unfinished nursing care that have undergone validation processes; (b) to evaluate critically the quality of the methods used in ascertaining their psychometric properties; and (c) to compare the estimated psychometric properties of these tools. Design: A systematic review of the psychometric properties also evaluating their methodological quality was performed by following the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) guideline for systematic reviews. Data sources: The databases Medline, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, Google and Google Scholar were searched up to 30 June 2018. Review methods: Data extraction was performed following the predetermined eligibility criteria. Eight properties and their methodological quality were assessed using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments criteria. Results: A total of 20 studies reported validation data regarding three family of tools: the Missed Care Survey (MISSCARE), the Basal Extent of Rationing of Nursing Care (BERNCA) and the Task Undone scale (TU-7). The most estimated psychometric properties across studies were internal consistency, followed by structural validity, content validity, and cross-cultural validity. The less evaluated psychometric properties were reliability, hypothesis testing and convergent and criterion validity. Conclusion: The psychometric properties of the investigated tools showed a more than acceptable quality, as did the methodologies used to estimate these properties. Impact: The MISSCARE survey is the most widely used tool validated across countries to date. Evaluating the concurrent reliability of the tools available is strongly recommended to assess their effectiveness in measuring the same phenomenon
Quali sono le ragioni delle Missed Care? Risultato di uno studio bilaterale. Ragioni delle Missed Care
No full textEvidence of missed nursing care in clinical practice has been well documented; however, fewer studies highlighting why care is missed have been conducted and this prevents effective interventions aimed at minimizing the missed care
Quali sono le ragioni delle Missed Care? Risultato di uno studio bilaterale. Ragioni delle Missed Care
No full textDiffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Predicting variations to missed nursing care: A three-nation comparison
No full textAIMS:
To measure and model Australian, Cypriot and Italian nurses' beliefs about what care is missed and how frequently it occurs within their settings.
BACKGROUND:
This study expands on previous MISSCARE research but now applies and predicts missed care within three countries.
METHODS:
Multivariate analysis was performed to estimate 1,896 nurses' consensus scores about missed care activities based on Alfaro-Lefevre's conceptual framework of care priorities.
RESULTS:
Five latent variables have direct predictor effects on missed care frequencies. Another four variables including the nurses' age, highest qualifications, absenteeism rate and workplace type, contributed to explaining the overall variance of missed care scores. The nurses' gender had no influence on missed care.
CONCLUSION:
Cross country comparisons of missed nursing care allow for a more refined identification of strategies for remediation for both managers and clinicians.
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT:
Reliable consensus estimates about the types and frequencies of missed care can be scaled with variables identified to predict missed care across three different countries. Comparative international studies build on the foundations for understanding missed care in terms of nursing practices, policies and related social policies
UHF and ISM Band MIMO Antenna for an Energy-Autonomous SWIPT system
No full textThis paper presents the design of a dual-port MIMO antenna that consists of two probe-fed radiating elements. One compact folded monopole for the UHF band matched from 840 to 945 MHz covering a bandwidth of 105 MHz, and a fully grounded patch antenna for the ISM band operating from 2.40 to 2.48 GHz, covering a bandwidth of 80 MHz. The isolation between
the two ports of the MIMO antenna is better than –20 dB. The proposed MIMO antenna is a suitable candidate for an energy autonomous SWIPT system
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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