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Exploring Divergent Views: A Comparative Study Of Uterus Transplantation Perceptions Among Transplant And Obstetrics/Gynecology Providers
No full textResearch Question: What are the perceptions of uterine transplantation (UTx) among OB/GYN attending the 2023 ACOG conference? What are the perceptions of UTx among transplant physicians attending the 2023 American Transplant Congress? What are the similarities and differences between perceptions of OB/GYNs and transplant physicians regarding UTx?Background and Significance: Uterus transplantation (UTx) is a procedure that provides women with absolute uterine-factor infertility (AUFI) the opportunity to carry their own pregnancy and deliver a child. There are multiple ethical and medical concerns associated with UTx. It is important to investigate the opinions of healthcare providers involved in diagnosing patients with AUFI and performing the transplantation, for UTx to move into regular clinical practice. The last survey evaluating the perception of UTx among OB/Gyns, transplant surgeons, internists, and family medicine practitioners in the United States was performed in 2018. Since then, there have been additional reports of successful transplantations and pregnancies. This study aims to identify and understand the perception of UTx among providers who are generally involved in the diagnosis of AUFI and on the transplant team. The second aim of this study is to compare these perceptions to each other and evaluate how opinions have changed since previous surveys were conducted. Addressing these aims will help us understand knowledge gaps among providers and determine what barriers must be overcome for UTx to be used in general clinical practice.Materials and Methods: This study was a survey study conducted via REDCap surveys. Study subjects included OB/GYN physicians recruited at the 2023 American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ACOG) conference and transplant physicians recruited at the 2023 American Transplant Congress (ATC). Participants were recruited by medical student volunteers. Potential participants were asked if they would be interested in reading an introduction pertaining to uterus transplantation and then answering a short survey. Physicians interested in participating were asked to sign an online consent form and then proceed to the survey on an iPad.Results: 200 physicians completed the survey between the ACOG and ATC conferences. Overall, 42% of providers from ACOG reported that they agreed to have medical concerns related to UTx compared to 22% of the providers from ATC. Survey responses for all participants showed that 76% of participants agreed that UTx should be an option for patients with congenital AUFI.Conclusion: Ultimately, this study further elucidates the perception of uterine transplantation among Ob/Gyns and transplant physicians regarding UTx. We found greater support for the procedure among providers compared to results from previous studies
Ethics for international medicine: a practical guide for aid workers in developing countries
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In recent years, international medicine has become a growth industry. International aid organizations, religious organizations, and medical schools all provide opportunities for health care workers to travel to developing countries to provide needed medical care to the world\u27s poorest citizens. Ethics for International Medicine explores the many challenges faced by these medical aid workers from the West: They serve in settings with limited medical supplies, facilities, and personnel. Their patients speak different languages, have different cultures, and may even have different interpretations of disease. With limited time in which to provide medical care to hundreds of people or more, ethical dilemmas abound, and many health care practitioners, both novice and expert, are unprepared to manage them. This volume uses a series of cases studies to provide medical aid workers with a method for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues within the context of international medicine. It is an invaluable tool for individuals and health organizations seeking to serve in developing countries throughout the world.
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Anji E. Wall, MD, PhD, is a resident in general surgery at Vanderbilt University. She earned her PhD in health care ethics at St. Louis University, with a focus on clinical ethics and international medicine. She has participated in international medical experiences in Guatemala and Jamaica.
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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
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