Research / Scholarship posts
- September 15, 2010
- 02:25 PM
- 353 views
Improving the Quality of Medical News Reporting
by Michael Long in Phased
David Henry (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada) and coworkers demonstrate that specialist health reporters deliver superior medical news reporting, with implications for news outlets facing financial pressure and competition from alternative media. This news feature was written on September 15, 2010.... Read more »
Wilson, A., Robertson, J., McElduff, P., Jones, A., & Henry, D. (2010) Does It Matter Who Writes Medical News Stories?. PLoS Medicine, 7(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000323
- September 15, 2010
- 12:16 PM
- 900 views
"Rational" Referees May Hurt The Peer Review Process.
by Joseph Smidt in The Eternal Universe
Those of us who work in academic fields hope that the peer review process in some sense works. Thurner and Hanel recently studied the effects of one particular entity that may hurt the process: the rational referee. Here, rational referes to someone who largely accepts or rejects a paper by factoring in how the acceptance or rejection of the paper will impact himself/herself. (To me this is not
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Stefan Thurner, & Rudolf Hanel. (2010) Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average. E-Print. arXiv: 1008.4324v1
- September 15, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 1,078 views
Trick of the trade: I got ultrasound gel in my eye!
by Michelle Lin in Academic Life In Emergency Medicine
Bedside ultrasonography is increasingly being used in the ED to examine the eye. For instance, it can be used to detect a retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, and high intracranial pressure. The technique involves applying ultrasound gel on the patient's closed eyelid. A generous amount of gel should be used to minimize the amount of direct pressure applied on the patient's eye by the ultrasound probe.Sometimes, however, no matter how careful you and the patient are, some gel accidentally co........ Read more »
Roth, K., & Gafni-Pappas, G. (2010) Unique Method of Ocular Ultrasound Using Transparent Dressings. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.10.020
- September 13, 2010
- 07:13 PM
- 821 views
Finding Truth in a Messy World
by jebyrnes in I'm a chordata, urochordata!
*-note, this was derived from a combination of emails between myself and my former phd advisor. See if you can pick out who is arguing what and where. It’s fun – well, for some of you, anyway. How do we know the world? This is a seemingly simple and vast question – one with no [...]... Read more »
Paine, R. (2010) Macroecology: Does It Ignore or Can It Encourage Further Ecological Syntheses Based on Spatially Local Experimental Manipulations?. The American Naturalist, 176(4), 385-393. DOI: 10.1086/656273
Ellison, A., & Dennis, B. (2010) Paths to statistical fluency for ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8(7), 362-370. DOI: 10.1890/080209
- September 13, 2010
- 03:43 PM
- 441 views
Wyeth's Ghostwriters Falsely Promoted Hormone Replacement Therapy
by Michael Long in Phased
Adriane Fugh-Berman (Georgetown University, United States) exposes the campaign of Wyeth and DesignWrite to falsely market hormone replacement therapy in non-symptomatic women, thereby profiting from a medical treatment which is not based on science. This news feature was written on September 13, 2010.... Read more »
Fugh-Berman, A. J. (2010) The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold “HRT”. PLoS Medicine, 7(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000335
- September 13, 2010
- 03:17 PM
- 413 views
In which I flog a dead horse
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
In this post I'd like to revisit the Kouper paper (2010) and even more important, the way it was accepted among science bloggers. First of all, let's start with the blogs studied. The paper says that "The blogs were sampled via the Internet search for "science blogs" and "blogs about science" and by following scientific news on the moment of data collection in Summer, 2008". I'm not sure why Ms. Kouper felt the need to make both searches because Uncle Google, bless its PageRank heart, gives, as........ Read more »
Kouper, I. (2010) Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities. Jcom, 9(1). info:/
- September 13, 2010
- 06:06 AM
- 813 views
Article review: EM consensus response to duty hour recommendations
by Michelle Lin in Academic Life In Emergency Medicine
"The problem with being on call every other night is that you miss half the cases!"Excessive resident fatigue was just par for training in the old days of Medicine before duty hours came into effect, thanks to the ACGME. In 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) provided more restrictive duty-hour recommendations. Key leaders in Emergency Medicine convened to develop a consensus response to these IOM recommendations. The following is a summary of the response, published in Journal of Emergency Me........ Read more »
Wagner MJ, Wolf S, Promes S, McGee D, Hobgood C, Doty C, McErlean MA, Janssen A, Smith-Coggins R, Ling L.... (2010) Duty hours in emergency medicine: balancing patient safety, resident wellness, and the resident training experience: a consensus response to the 2008 institute of medicine resident duty hours recommendations. The Journal of emergency medicine, 39(3), 348-55. PMID: 20634017
- September 11, 2010
- 09:07 AM
- 462 views
Why digging up primary sources is important?
by Tommi Himberg in Synchronised Minds
When writing a thesis, a chore that always takes more time than predicted is building the bibliography. Even with good software to manage your citations and references (EndNote, RefWorks, JabRef etc.), peppering your text with references and engaging in discussion with your sources takes time. (I often wonder how it was even possible to do [...]... Read more »
PORRINOJR, J., TAN, V., & DALUISKI, A. (2008) Misquotation of a Commonly Referenced Hand Surgery Study. The Journal of Hand Surgery, 33(1), 20-2000000000. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2007.10.007
Hol, J., de Jongste, J., & Nieuwenhuis, E. (2009) Quoting a landmark paper on the beneficial effects of probiotics. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 124(6), 1354-2147483647. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.07.047
PARADIS, M. (2006) More belles infidèles—or why do so many bilingual studies speak with forked tongue?☆. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19(3), 195-208. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2005.11.002
- September 10, 2010
- 04:09 PM
- 1,293 views
Making one-shots better – what the research says (Peer Reviewed Monday, part 2)
by Anne-Marie Deitering in info-fetishist
And now, on to Peer-Reviewed Monday, part two but still not Monday. Mesmer-Magnus, J., & Viswesvaran, C. (2010). The role of pre-training interventions in learning: A meta-analysis and integrative review☆ Human Resource Management Review, 20 (4), 261-282 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.05.001 As I said earlier this week, this was started by a link to this article, a [...]... Read more »
Mesmer-Magnus, J., & Viswesvaran, C. (2010) The role of pre-training interventions in learning: A meta-analysis and integrative review☆. Human Resource Management Review, 20(4), 261-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.05.001
- September 10, 2010
- 06:18 AM
- 1,051 views
Paucis Verbis card: Thrombolytic contraindications in CVA
by Michelle Lin in Academic Life In Emergency Medicine
With the recent widening of the thrombolytic window from ≤3 hours to ≤4.5 hours for ischemic strokes, I wanted to review the contraindications for thrombolytics (rtPA). To review the NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), go to the Paucis Verbis card on NIHSS.Thanks to Dr. Jason Nomura for making this card and summarizing the long list of exclusion criteria. If anyone has a practical topic, algorithm, or table, please feel free to share! I'd be happy to format and upload into the PV series.Feel free to d........ Read more »
NINDS. (1995) Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke. New England Journal of Medicine, 333(24), 1581-1588. DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199512143332401
del Zoppo, G., Saver, J., Jauch, E., Adams, H., & , . (2009) Expansion of the Time Window for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke With Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke, 40(8), 2945-2948. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.192535
- September 9, 2010
- 01:13 PM
- 382 views
The Famous Scientist
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
What makes a scientist famous?Rae Goodell (Later known as Simpson), in her dissertation-turned-book, "The Visible Scientists" studied the visible scientists of the seventies (Sagan, Skinner, Mead, etc.). Her book summarizes the essentials of being a famous scientist.The hardest to achieve is a credible reputation. The visible scientist is an authority. A well-known institution is a must (Harvard/Stanford/Any IV League university). A "Hot Topic". Back in the seventies people talked about the po........ Read more »
Goodell, R. (1977) The visible scientists. Boston : Little, Brown. info:other/0316320005
- September 9, 2010
- 10:57 AM
- 951 views
Study Proves The Genetic Continuity of Jews
by Multiple authors in UT Blog
The study, published recently in Nature, analyzes the relationship between different Jewish communities, their possible common origins, and genetic relationship with differing peoples in whose midst one or another Jewish community has lived, often more than a thousand years. Continue reading →... Read more »
Behar, D., Yunusbayev, B., Metspalu, M., Metspalu, E., Rosset, S., Parik, J., Rootsi, S., Chaubey, G., Kutuev, I., Yudkovsky, G.... (2010) The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people. Nature, 466(7303), 238-242. DOI: 10.1038/nature09103
- September 8, 2010
- 06:58 PM
- 391 views
Prepping for the one-shot (Peer Review Wednesday)
by Anne-Marie Deitering in info-fetishist
Via the Research Blogging Twitter stream – I came across an article the other day that seemed like it would be of particular interest to practitioners of the one-shot, but as I was reading it I realized that it drew so heavily on an earlier model, that I should read that one too – so [...]... Read more »
CANNON-BOWERS, J., RHODENIZER, L., SALAS, E., & BOWERS, C. (1998) A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING PRE-PRACTICE CONDITIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON LEARNING. Personnel Psychology, 51(2), 291-320. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1998.tb00727.x
- September 6, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 1,319 views
Article Review: Student documentation in the chart
by Michelle Lin in Academic Life In Emergency Medicine
Do you have medical students rotating in your Emergency Department? Are they allowed to document in the medical record?Charting in the medical record is the cornerstone of clinical communication. You document your findings, your clinical reasoning, and management plan. The medical record allows communication amongst providers. Chart documentation is a crucial skill that every medical student should know, as stated by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). However, there is a growin........ Read more »
Friedman E, Sainte M, & Fallar R. (2010) Taking note of the perceived value and impact of medical student chart documentation on education and patient care. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 85(9), 1440-4. PMID: 20736671
- September 5, 2010
- 10:48 PM
- 434 views
Science Blogging Meta
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
I love the Groth and Gurney paper, and not just because it introduced me to http://researchblogging.org/. The authors analyzed 295 blog posts about chemistry and the included citations. In comparison to the usual pieces which deal with science blogging in the scholarly literature, this paper has dealt with a large number of posts. Most of what I've read about science blogging are either opinion articles (Batts et al, 2008), or qualitative research, aka interviews with a small number of bloggers ........ Read more »
Paul Groth, & Thomas Gurney. (2010) Studying Scientific Discourse on the Web Using Bibliometrics: A Chemistry Blogging Case Study. In press. info:/
Sara Kjellberg. (2010) I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context. First Monday, 15(8). info:other/
Batts, S. A., Anthis, N. J. , & Smith, T. C. (2008) Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy. PLoS Biology, 6(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060240
- September 3, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 4,608 views
Paucis Verbis card: Pertussis
by Michelle Lin in Academic Life In Emergency Medicine
Bordetella pertussisIs your Emergency Department administering Tdap immunization boosters instead of dT boosters? Patients with wounds are getting updated not only for tetanus and diphtheria, but also now for pertussis. Apparently there has been sharp rise in the national incidence of pertussis in 2010. The infection has been documented in both infants (underimmunized less than 3 months old) and adolescents/adults (loss of immunity after 10 years). In fact, the CDC has issued an epidemic warning........ Read more »
Cornia PB, Hersh AL, Lipsky BA, Newman TB, & Gonzales R. (2010) Does this coughing adolescent or adult patient have pertussis?. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 304(8), 890-6. PMID: 20736473
- September 2, 2010
- 12:17 PM
- 748 views
Six Months to a Sexy New Body
by Paul Statt in Paul Statt Communications
Public transportation, like, say, public health or the public library, just isn’t sexy. But a fat slob isn’t sexy, either, is he? And with public transportation, he could build a sexy new physique in only 6 to 8 months, according to a recent publication in the the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.... Read more »
MacDonald JM, Stokes RJ, Cohen DA, Kofner A, & Ridgeway GK. (2010) The effect of light rail transit on body mass index and physical activity. American journal of preventive medicine, 39(2), 105-12. PMID: 20621257
- September 2, 2010
- 09:32 AM
- 1,335 views
Briefings in Bioinformatics – our education paper is available now
Back in April I happened to mention that we (OpenHelix) were writing a paper on informal sources of bioinformatics education (in a Friday SNPets item) and we were asked to announce when the paper came out. Well, we got word late last week that the article has been published. The article appears in a special issue of Briefings in Bioinformatics that is devoted to bioinformatics education. I’m not sure if all the articles in the issue are available yet, but it looks like several are in the j........ Read more »
Williams, J., Mangan, M., Perreault-Micale, C., Lathe, S., Sirohi, N., & Lathe, W. (2010) OpenHelix: bioinformatics education outside of a different box. Briefings in Bioinformatics. DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbq026
- September 1, 2010
- 01:20 PM
- 219 views
The Volokh, the slashdot and the NYT effects
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
Back in 2007, Paul Ohm, a law professor in the University of Colorado law school, guest-blogged in a popular law blog called The Volokh Conspiracy. He guest-blogged for one week about two of his papers: "The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study" and "The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online." Being more computer-savvy than the average law professor (he has a B.Sc. in Computer Science) he wrote a script which checked the number of abstract views and downloads of hi........ Read more »
Paul Ohm. (2007) Do Blogs Influence SSRN Downloads? Empirically Testing the Volokh and Slashdot Effects. U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper . info:other/
- September 1, 2010
- 05:17 AM
- 1,025 views
How Many Unique Papers Are There In Mendeley?
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been getting a lot of attention lately, and with some impressive statistics it’s not difficult why. At the time of writing Mendeley claims to have over 36 million papers, added by just under half a [...]... Read more »
Victor Henning, & Jan Reichelt. (2008) Mendeley - A Last.fm For Research?. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 327-328. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.128
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