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Journal of Korean Medical Science Feb 2021Infographics are pictorial representations of information intended to disseminate information quickly and clearly. Their use has increased in the past decade due to... (Review)
Review
Infographics are pictorial representations of information intended to disseminate information quickly and clearly. Their use has increased in the past decade due to wider and easy access to technology. Infographics are being increasingly used for public advisories, disseminating protocols for healthcare professionals, and post-publication promotion of research. Due to their potential to rapidly reach a vast audience, these have gained larger importance during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Two key aspects determine the quality of infographics, content and visual appeal. In this brief, the authors attempt to delineate the key aspects of designing an infographic, and the freeware that they may have at their disposal for creating informative, appealing, and useful infographics.
Topics: Audiovisual Aids; Biomedical Research; COVID-19; Computer Graphics; Health Communication; Health Personnel; Humans; Information Dissemination; Pandemics; Social Media
PubMed: 33527783
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e41 -
Journal of Orthopaedic Research :... Aug 2023Social media usage, particularly Twitter, among scientists in academia has increased in recent years. However, Twitter's use in scholarly post-publication dissemination... (Review)
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Social media usage, particularly Twitter, among scientists in academia has increased in recent years. However, Twitter's use in scholarly post-publication dissemination of orthopaedic research and musculoskeletal advocacy remains low. To enhance usage of Twitter among musculoskeletal researchers, this article reviews data supporting the professional benefits of using the platform to disseminate scholarly works. Next, we provide a linear workflow for Tweet curation, discuss the importance of data-driven decision making behind tweet curation and posting, and propose new guidelines for professional Twitter usage. Since this workflow may not eliminate all the identified barriers and new institutionalized shifts in policies regarding curation and consumption of social media on Twitter, we also briefly introduce and explore using other social media platforms. We hope this information will be persuasive and compelling to those in the orthopedic research field and be broadly applicable to others in related scientific fields who wish to disseminate findings and engage a public audience on social media. In addition, we encourage the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) and Journal of Orthopedic Research (JOR) communities to take advantage of the many tools curated by the Wiley editorial office and the ORS social media committee to increase dissemination of their scholarly works online. Twitter and social media can assist in accomplishing our mission of creating a world without musculoskeletal limitations via the timely dissemination of orthopedic information. However, this can only be accomplished if the orthopedic research community has a unified and strong online presence actively engaged in orthopaedic research findings and news.
Topics: Humans; Social Media; Research Personnel
PubMed: 37163368
DOI: 10.1002/jor.25588 -
The Ulster Medical Journal May 2022Medical research within the UK has continued to grow, most notably during the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, which highlights the importance of disseminating... (Review)
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Medical research within the UK has continued to grow, most notably during the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, which highlights the importance of disseminating relevant research findings. For all researchers involved in clinical trials and scientific research, the end goal of success is not completed following the publication of the research findings, but ultimately true impact and significance is achieved when such research has a role in developing clinical practice. Each year between 2.5 - 3 million scientific papers are published and the number continues to rise, therefore it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that published research has such a targeted impact as it must first get noticed. Increasing time commitments result in difficulties for clinicians keeping up-to-date with the current literature and in order to address this, journals and researchers have developed approaches to share peer-reviewed research with the wider research community in an effective and efficient manner. One such approach has been the introduction of the visual abstract which comprises of an infographic style format, coupled with a shortened, limited word summary of the research abstract detailing the key question, methodology, findings and take home message of the research study. The visual abstract has characteristics which enable it to be shared on social media platforms and in turn increase the interest and impact within the research community. Visual abstracts are being increasingly introduced within medical journals and organisations to help disseminate valuable research findings. This review focuses on visual abstracts, what they are, their history, structure and role within research dissemination and medical education.
Topics: Biomedical Research; COVID-19; Humans; Pandemics
PubMed: 35722208
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Frontiers in Microbiology 2017, the causative agent of pandemic cholera, is abundant in marine and freshwater environments. Copepods and chironomids are natural reservoirs of this species. However,... (Review)
Review
, the causative agent of pandemic cholera, is abundant in marine and freshwater environments. Copepods and chironomids are natural reservoirs of this species. However, the ways is globally disseminated are as yet unknown. Here we review the scientific literature that provides evidence for the possibility that some fish species may be reservoirs and vectors of . So far, has been isolated from 30 fish species (22 freshwater; 9 marine). O1 was reported in a few cases. In most cases was isolated from fish intestines, but it has also been detected in gills, skin, kidney, liver and brain tissue. In most cases the fish were healthy but in some, they were diseased. Nevertheless, Koch postulates were not applied to prove that and not another agent was the cause of the disease in the fish. Evidence from the literature correlates raw fish consumption or fish handling to a few cholera cases or cholera epidemics. Thus, we can conclude that inhabits some marine and freshwater fish species. It is possible that fish may protect the bacteria in unfavorable habitats while the bacteria may assist the fish to digest its food. Also, fish may disseminate the bacteria in the aquatic environment and may transfer it to waterbirds that consume them. Thus, fish are reservoirs of and may play a role in its global dissemination.
PubMed: 28293221
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00282 -
BMC Infectious Diseases Oct 2016Coccidioidomycosis, a potentially fatal fungal infection, is considered an emergent mycotic disease because of the increased incidence of fungal infections registered... (Review)
Review
BACKGROUND
Coccidioidomycosis, a potentially fatal fungal infection, is considered an emergent mycotic disease because of the increased incidence of fungal infections registered over recent years. Infection occurs through the inhalation of arthroconidia from two main species of Coccidioides: Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii, which are both endemic to arid and semi-arid regions of North America. Coccidioides species not only infect humans but can also infect other mammals (land, aquatic, wild or domestic), reptiles and birds.
OBJECTIVE
To obtain information regarding the habitat of Coccidioides spp. and the animals infected by this fungus and to identify the role that infected animals play as reservoirs and disseminators of this fungus in nature.
MATERIALS
A literature review was conducted to identify the habitat of Coccidioides spp. and the infected non-human animal species targeted by this fungus.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
This review allows us to suggest that Coccidioides spp. may be classified as halotolerant organisms; nevertheless, to perpetuate their life cycle, these organisms depend on different animal species (reservoirs) that serve as a link with the environment, by acting as disseminators of the fungi in nature.
Topics: Animals; Coccidioides; Coccidioidomycosis; Disease Reservoirs; Disease Vectors; Ecosystem; Humans; North America
PubMed: 27724885
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1902-7 -
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory... Jul 1977Choroid plexus papilloma is a rare intracerebral neoplasm that occasionally disseminates along the neuraxis. The fine structure of such a metastatic papilloma appears to...
Choroid plexus papilloma is a rare intracerebral neoplasm that occasionally disseminates along the neuraxis. The fine structure of such a metastatic papilloma appears to correspond very closely to that of normal choroid plexus. Lack of capillary endothelial pores is the only meaningful difference. There does not appear to be an ultrastructural feature that is unique to disseminating choroid plexus papilloma.
Topics: Cell Membrane; Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms; Child; Choroid Plexus; Endothelium; Epithelial Cells; Epithelium; Humans; Male; Papilloma
PubMed: 577391
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Vestnik Rentgenologii I Radiologii 1998Clinical and X-Ray studies were performed in 85 patients with disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis. All the patients underwent routine computerized tomography (CT) and... (Comparative Study)
Comparative Study
Clinical and X-Ray studies were performed in 85 patients with disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis. All the patients underwent routine computerized tomography (CT) and high-resolution CT. According to the pathogenetic process, the authors identified hematogenic (n = 38), lymphogenic (n = 19), bronchogenic (n = 18) and mixed (n = 10) disseminations. High-resolution CT was found to have great advantages in detecting various types of tuberculous disseminations and in assessing the pattern of pulmonary abnormalities. Disseminated tuberculosis was revealed in 7 patients who had no pathological changes on routine lung X-ray films. The specific signs of hematogenic, lymphogenic disseminations and bronchgenic inoculations were identified in other forms of pulmonary tuberculosis. CT symptomatology is shown to be determined by the pathogenetic variant of its development and the stage of the process. Small focal changes in the lung were prevalent in patients with acute and subacute hematogenic forms of the disease. Infiltrates with decay cavities, thin-wall caverns, emphysema and bronchoectases were detected over the chronic course. Lymphogenic disseminations were characterized by the predominance of interstitial changes along with multiple minor foci. High-resolution CT had advantages in identifying decay cavities, signs of fibrosis and in evaluating mediastinal lymph nodes. CT data are of great significance for differential diagnosis of disseminated tuberculosis with lung metastases and diffuse interstitial diseases.
Topics: Adult; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
PubMed: 10513244
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Clinical Nurse Specialist CNS 2006Much has been written about the importance of using research findings to guide nursing practice. How to best disseminate those findings to nurses remains a challenge. In... (Review)
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Much has been written about the importance of using research findings to guide nursing practice. How to best disseminate those findings to nurses remains a challenge. In many clinical settings, nurses interested in research utilization and evidence-based practice retrieve, review, and integrate knowledge from research reports to guide decisions about best practices. Major barriers to this approach, however, are staff nurses' lack of time, expertise, and resources for this process. One approach to overcoming these barriers is to disseminate the results of systematic research reviews directly to nurses in the form of brief reports, written in an easy-to-understand style, and sent via e-mail. This article describes the development of brief reports as a strategy for disseminating the results of systematic reviews to staff nurses. To demonstrate the use of brief reports for this purpose, we chose a systematic review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Topics: Attitude of Health Personnel; Diffusion of Innovation; Education, Nursing, Continuing; Evidence-Based Medicine; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Information Dissemination; Nurse Clinicians; Nurse's Role; Nursing Research; Nursing Staff; Review Literature as Topic; Teaching; Time Management
PubMed: 16980792
DOI: 10.1097/00002800-200609000-00009 -
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon Nov 1986The curing chance of cancer disseminated to the lungs depends on the global curing chance of that specific tumor, the extent and distribution of its systemic spread and... (Review)
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The curing chance of cancer disseminated to the lungs depends on the global curing chance of that specific tumor, the extent and distribution of its systemic spread and the availability of additional treatment modalities besides surgery. Of all tumors occurring in childhood and adolescence only osteosarcoma, Wilms tumor and Ewing's sarcoma preferentially disseminate to the lungs and such are the most promising candidates for successful treatment. In osteosarcoma with pulmonary dissemination surgical removal of the metastases is indispensable. In Wilms tumor chemoradiotherapy may replace or be used as an adjunct to surgery while in Ewing's sarcoma with primary pulmonary metastases chemoradiotherapy is the treatment of choice. Although metachronous lung metastases may still cured in osteosarcoma and Wilms tumor, they tend to be fatal however in Ewing's sarcoma. A small chance of success itself should not contraindicate metastasectomy but only the actual technically impossible intervention or the definite demonstration of tumor progression no longer controllable of different location. However, even palliative metastasectomy may be indicated in an individual patient.
Topics: Adolescent; Child; Humans; Lung Neoplasms; Middle Aged
PubMed: 2432685
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1022190 -
Journal of Communication Disorders 2023A common complaint of people with aphasia and their families is their inability to find information about current aphasia treatment research (Hinckley, Boyle, Lombard &...
BACKGROUND
A common complaint of people with aphasia and their families is their inability to find information about current aphasia treatment research (Hinckley, Boyle, Lombard & Bartels-Tobin, 2014; Hinckley & El-Khouri, 2021). Plain language summaries, video summaries, and graphical summaries are three ways to disseminate research results that are more accessible to a broader audience. The purpose of this tutorial is to discuss the motivations for disseminating research in understandable ways, and to provide information and resources on how aphasia-friendly dissemination can be done.
METHOD
We report an overview of evidence on the importance of and characteristics of dissemination. Next, we provide specific characteristics and resources for producing plain language summaries, video summaries, and graphical abstracts. Finally, we conducted a systematic search for journals in the area of stroke rehabilitation after consultation with a research librarian. The publication webpages of each journal were inspected to gather information about whether and how the journal published plain language summaries, video summaries, or graphical abstracts. Editors were contacted as needed to complete the information. Sixty journals in stroke rehabilitation were identified, and a total of 43 journals (71%) publish video abstracts, graphical summaries, and/or plain language summaries either independently or through third-party platforms.
CONCLUSIONS
The findings are discussed in the context of the importance of making research consumer-friendly. We offer specific recommendations for aphasia researchers, and future directions for publishing research in ways that will have an impact on the broader public are suggested.
Topics: Humans; Aphasia; Language; Stroke Rehabilitation
PubMed: 37192574
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106338