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Proposed clinical procedure for postoperative enteral nutritional therapy for complex children. Quality work
No full textBakgrunn: Barn med multifunksjonshemming er i en større ernæringsmessig risiko enn ellers friske barn når de utsettes for stor kirurgi, og det er derfor behov for å sette postoperativ ernæringsterapi i system ved å utarbeide en kunnskapsbasert fagprosedyre. Hensikt: Det overordnede målet med fagprosedyren er å øke pasientsikkerheten gjennom å redusere uønsket variasjon og gi standardisert helsehjelp. Ved å anvende fagprosedyren sikrer man at multifunksjonshemmede barn får individuelt tilpasset ernæringsterapi i det postoperative forløpet. Problemstilling: Forslag til fagprosedyre for postoperativ enteral ernæringsterapi til barn med multifunksjonshemming. Metode: Metoden i dette eksamensarbeidet er kvalitetsarbeid. Arbeidet baserer seg på Konsmo og medarbeideres (2015) metode for kvalitetsforbedring og Helsedirektoratets (2012) veileder for utarbeidelse av kunnskapsbaserte fagprosedyrer. Kunnskapssøket er utført ved bruk av kunnskapspyramiden, og det er utformet PICO-skjemaer for å svare på helsespørsmålene. Fagprosedyren er evaluert ved bruk av AGREE-II. Resultat: Resultatet er et forslag til fagprosedyre for postoperativ ernæringsterapi til barn med multifunksjonshemming. Fagprosedyren er basert på erfaringskunnskap og systematisk innhentet forskningskunnskap. Konklusjon: Ved å bruke en kunnskapsbasert fagprosedyre vil man kunne minske uønsket variasjon og dermed øke pasientsikkerheten i det postoperative forløpet.Background: Complex children are at greater nutritional risk than otherwise healthy children when they are exposed to major surgery. It is therefore needed to put postoperative nutritional therapy into system by preparing an evidence-based clinical procedure. Objective: The aim of such a clinical procedure is to increase patient safety by reducing unwanted variation and to give standardized health care. By applying the procedure one can ensure that complex children get nutritional therapy based on their individual needs in the postoperative phase. Problem: Proposed clinical procedure for postoperative nutritional therapy for complex children. Method: The chosen method for this master thesis is quality work. The thesis is based on Konsmo and associates (2015) method for quality work and guidelines given by the Norwegian Directorate of Health (2012). The search for knowledge was done by the structure of the evidence-based healthcare pyramid, and there was designed PICO forms to answer the health questions. The clinical procedure is evaluated by the AGREE-II instrument. Result: The result is a proposed clinical procedure for postoperative nutritional therapy for complex children. The clinical procedure is based on experience-based knowledge and systematically acquired evidence-based knowledge. Conclusion: By using an evidence-based clinical procedure one can reduce unwanted variation and so on increase patient safety.publishedVersio
Forslag til fagprosedyre for postoperativ enteral ernæringsterapi til barn med multifunksjonshemming. Et kvalitetsarbeid
No full textBakgrunn: Barn med multifunksjonshemming er i en større ernæringsmessig risiko enn ellers friske barn når de utsettes for stor kirurgi, og det er derfor behov for å sette postoperativ ernæringsterapi i system ved å utarbeide en kunnskapsbasert fagprosedyre. Hensikt: Det overordnede målet med fagprosedyren er å øke pasientsikkerheten gjennom å redusere uønsket variasjon og gi standardisert helsehjelp. Ved å anvende fagprosedyren sikrer man at multifunksjonshemmede barn får individuelt tilpasset ernæringsterapi i det postoperative forløpet. Problemstilling: Forslag til fagprosedyre for postoperativ enteral ernæringsterapi til barn med multifunksjonshemming. Metode: Metoden i dette eksamensarbeidet er kvalitetsarbeid. Arbeidet baserer seg på Konsmo og medarbeideres (2015) metode for kvalitetsforbedring og Helsedirektoratets (2012) veileder for utarbeidelse av kunnskapsbaserte fagprosedyrer. Kunnskapssøket er utført ved bruk av kunnskapspyramiden, og det er utformet PICO-skjemaer for å svare på helsespørsmålene. Fagprosedyren er evaluert ved bruk av AGREE-II. Resultat: Resultatet er et forslag til fagprosedyre for postoperativ ernæringsterapi til barn med multifunksjonshemming. Fagprosedyren er basert på erfaringskunnskap og systematisk innhentet forskningskunnskap. Konklusjon: Ved å bruke en kunnskapsbasert fagprosedyre vil man kunne minske uønsket variasjon og dermed øke pasientsikkerheten i det postoperative forløpet
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
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
Pain and pressure pain thresholds in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy controls: a cross-sectional study
Full text linkObjectives: Although pain is a significant symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), pain is poorly understood in adolescents with CFS. The aim of this study was to explore pain distribution and prevalence, pain intensity and its functional interference in everyday life, as well as pressure pain thresholds (PPT) in adolescents with CFS and compare this with a control group of healthy adolescents (HC). Methods: This is a case–control, cross-sectional study on pain including 120 adolescents with CFS and 39 HCs, aged 12–18 years. We measured pain frequency, pain severity and pain interference using self-reporting questionnaires. PPT was measured using pressure algometry. Data were collected from March 2010 until October 2012 as part of the Norwegian Study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adolescents: Pathophysiology and Intervention Trial. Results: Adolescents with CFS had significantly lower PPTs compared with HCs (p<0.001). The Pain Severity Score and the Pain Interference Score were significantly higher in adolescents with CFS compared with HCs (p<0.001). Almost all adolescents with CFS experienced headache, abdominal pain and/or pain in muscles and joints. Moreover, in all sites, the pain intensity levels were significantly higher than in HCs (p<0.001). Conclusions: We found a higher prevalence of severe pain among adolescents with CFS and lowered pain thresholds compared with HCs. The mechanisms, however, are still obscure. Large longitudinal population surveys are warranted measuring pain thresholds prior to the onset of CFS
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
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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