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Mortality follow-back study on palliative care in the Dutch primary care setting
No full textIn this study we aimed to investigate the quality of palliative care in the primary care setting. In several GP-practices, we investigated files of patients who died during a follow-back period of one year. For those who died in the primary care setting, we asked the GPs, and any involved district nurses, to fill in questionnaires on the care provided, symptom management and the quality of life of the patient in the final three months. This dataset provided characteristics of the patients and the provided palliative care
Needs assessment among Dutch healthcare providers on primary palliative care
No full textOnline questionnaire on the experiences of Dutch healthcare providers with palliative care in the primary care setting. Includes questions on their experiences with cooperation, communication, continuity and expertise in primary palliative care in general, as well as a description of their most recently deceased patient in which they provided palliative care
Correction: MicroRNA regulation of persistent stress-enhanced memory (Molecular Psychiatry, (2020), 25, 5, (965-976), 10.1038/s41380-019-0432-2)
No full textIn the original version of this article, the author ‘Christiaan H. Vinkers’ was incorrectly associated with ‘Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands’. This authors affiliations have now been corrected to: ‘Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), Amsterdam, The Netherlands’ and ‘Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), Amsterdam, The Netherlands’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article
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
Improving the patient order flow in the preparation process of a radiotherapy outpatient clinic: A case study performed at Amsterdam UMC - Location VUmc
No full textAmsterdam UMC is an academic hospital where high level research is applied in practice. One of the outpatient clinics of location VUmc is the radiotherapy department. Radiotherapy utilises X-ray radiation to damage cancer cells. During their treatment period, cancer patients visit the department once a day to receive a radiotherapy treatment. Before the radiotherapy treatment can start an extended preparation process is executed. Improving the patient order flow in the radiotherapy preparation process is the subject of this research. The preparation process is a complex process: Many different process steps are necessary to prepare the radiotherapy of a patient. Due to the presence of a waiting queue before each of the process steps, the flow is restricted and errors occur in the corresponding information flow. Often, the reason is the limited insight in the other process step. No overarching control is available to control the flow between the different sections. Interventions occur, but does not rely on organized control structure. The available control is only taking into account the own process step. The fact that the radiotherapy department is too much functionally organised is the main reason for the existence of these problems. The functional design is a requirement for the radiotherapy system. However, within the outline of the functional design, improvements are possible. These improvements have to create an improved flow of patients with a transparent and coordinated execution.The main solution for the problem is the design of control structure based on the matrix organisation theory. The functional control structure remains and a patient order control structure is designed. The functional control structure is elaborated by the measure of the length of the waiting queue of the previous process step. The patient order control structure controls the flow of the patient orders throughout the preparation process. This control is executed on the basis of the date of the start of the radiotherapy treatment. The start of the radiotherapy treatment is the end of the preparation process. This date is determined earlier in the process and the different process step due times will be adapted according to that date. \newline The solution is able to improve the transparency in the department. The patient order progress is monitored during the preparation process and the different process steps will have more insight in the upcoming flow. Especially the patient order control structure is able to coordinate the flow based on the determining of the date of the start of the treatment in an earlier phase.For the examination of the effect of the proposed patient order control structure, a simulation model is built. The simulation model shows the positive effect on the flow of the patient orders through the department: The variation in the waiting queue length is reduced, the variation in the process time is reduced and the variation in the number of patients who will start their treatment on a certain day is reduced.Mechanical Engineerin
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
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