BACKGROUND Rapid reviews expedite the knowledge synthesis process with the goal of providing timely information to healthcare decision-makers who want to use evidence-informed policy and practice approaches. A range of opinions and viewpoints on rapid reviews is thought to exist; however, no research to date has formally captured these views. This paper aims to explore evidence producer and kno...

Long-term outcome studies are frequently hindered by a decreasing frequency of patient follow-up with the treating surgeon over time. Whether this attrition represents a "loss of faith" in their index surgeon or the realities of a geographically mobile society has never been assessed in a population of patients undergoing spinal surgery. The purpose of this article is to determine the frequency...

OBJECTIVE To develop clinical practice guidelines for the use of restraining therapies to maintain physical and psychological safety of adult and pediatric patients in the intensive care unit. PARTICIPANTS A multidisciplinary, multispecialty task force of experts in critical care practice was convened from the membership of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), the Society of...

Product reviews possess critical information regarding customers’ concerns and their experience with the product. Such information is considered essential to firms’ business intelligence which can be utilized for the purpose of conceptual design, personalization, product recommendation, better customer understanding, and finally attract more loyal customers. Previous studies of deriving useful ...

At the year end of 2011 Belgium formed a government, after a world record breaking period of 541 days of negotiations. We have gathered and analysed 68,000 related on-line news articles published in 2011 in Flemish newspapers. These articles were analysed by a custom-built expert system. The results of our text mining analyses show interesting differences in media coverage and votes for several...

In this paper, we are interested in understanding the interrelationships between mainstream and social media in forming public opinion during mass crises, specifically in regards to how events are framed in the mainstream news and on social networks and to how the language used in those frames may allow to infer political slant and partisanship. We study the lingual choices for political agenda...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of honorary and ghost authors in six leading general medical journals in 2008 and compare this with the prevalence reported by authors of articles published in 1996. DESIGN Cross sectional survey using a web based questionnaire. SETTING International survey of journal authors. PARTICIPANTS Sample of corresponding authors of 896 research articles, review...

In this paper, we review articles in the research field of international and comparative human resource management (HRM), published Asia Pacific Journal Human Resources since journal’s inception 1960s. Our is based on 155 articles, including 43 conceptual, opinion, editorial, 112 empirical studies, examines trends over decades by examining four major areas: 1) characteristics articles; 2) topic...

The aim of this study was to analyze public opinion about online learning during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic. A total 154 articles from news and blogging websites related were extracted Google DuckDuckGo. for 45 days, starting day World Health Organization (WHO) declared a worldwide pandemic, 11 March 2020. For research, we applied dictionary-based approach lexicon-based me...

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