bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Venous thromboembolism – prevalence and risk factors in chronic venous disease patients
Authors: Musil Dalibor , Kaletová Markéta , Herman Jiří 
Published: February 2016

Aims This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of venous thromboembolism in patients with chronic venous disease and the impact of some intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. Methods A retrospective study on 641 outpatients (489 women) with primary chronic venous disease (C0–C6). The prevalence of venous thromboembolism was evaluated according to sex, age, BMI, the presence of ≥1 first-degree siblings diagnosed with venous thromboembolism, CEAP clinical class, smoking and the use of hormone therapy. Results Venous thromboembolism episodes occurred in 32 patients (5%) with no gender predominance (OR 1.49, 95% CI = 0.90–2.45; p = 0.146). There was no increased RR of venous thromboembolism in the age group 46–69 years compared with patients aged ≤45 years ( p = 0.350). In persons aged ≥70 years, the risk of venous thromboembolism was 3.2 times higher than in patients aged 46–69 years and 4.78 times higher than in patients aged ≤45 years. The risk of venous thromboembolism rose very significantly in obese compared with normostenic patients ( p = 0.002). There were significantly more venous thromboembolism episodes in patients with chronic venous insufficiency (55.3%) than patients with varicose veins (44.7%) ( p < 0.001). A family history of venous thromboembolism ( p = 0.12), smoking ( p = 0.905) and hormone therapy ( p = 0.326) were not associated with increased risk of venous thromboembolism. Smoking was a risk factor in obese patients ( p = 0.033), but the combination of obesity, smoking, estrogens in women did not increase the risk of venous thromboembolism. Conclusions The 5% prevalence of venous thromboembolism episodes in patients was comparable with the prevalence of venous thromboembolism in the general European population. Age ≥70 years and obesity were strongly associated with an occurrence of venous thromboembolism. Obese patients with chronic venous disease were at higher risk for venous thromboembolism than obese people in the general population. A family history of venous thromboembolism, smoking and estrogens alone or in combination were not revealed as significant risk factors.
Age-related brain atrophy may be mitigated by internal jugular vein enlargement in male individuals without neurologic disease
Authors: Belov Pavel , Magnano Christopher , Krawiecki Jacqueline , Hagemeier Jesper , Bergsland Niels , Beggs Clive , Zivadinov Robert 
Published: February 2016

Objectives To assess the relationship between cross-sectional area of internal jugular veins and brain volumes in healthy individuals without neurologic disease. Methods A total of 193 healthy individuals without neurologic disease (63 male and 130 female; age > 20 to < 70 years) received magnetic resonance venography and structural brain magnetic resonance imaging at 3T. The internal jugular vein cross-sectional area was assessed at C2–C3, C4, C5–C6, and C7–T1. Normalized whole brain volume was assessed. Partial correlation analyses were used to determine associations. Results There was an inverse relationship between normalized whole brain volume and total internal jugular vein cross-sectional area (C7–T1: males r = −0.346, p = 0.029; females r = −0.301, p = 0.002). After age adjustment, association of normalized whole brain volume and normalized gray matter volume with internal jugular vein cross-sectional area became positive in males (normalized whole brain volume and right internal jugular vein cross-sectional area (C2–C3) changed from r = −0.163 to r = 0.384, p = 0.002), but not in the females. Conclusion Sex differences exist in the relationship between brain volume and internal jugular vein cross-sectional area in healthy individuals without neurologic disease.
Changes in Knee Osteoarthritis, Symptoms, and Function After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Authors: Risberg May Arna , Oiestad Britt Elin , Gunderson Ragnhild , Aune Arne Kristian , Engebretsen Lars , Culvenor Adam , Holm Inger 
Published: February 2016

Background: Progression of tibiofemoral (TF) and patellofemoral (PF) osteoarthritis (OA) and changes in knee function more than 15 years after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) are not well understood. Purpose: To examine the progression of knee OA and changes in symptoms and function in isolated and combined injuries from 15 to 20 years after ACLR. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Methods: A total of 210 subjects with ACLR were prospectively followed. At the 15- and 20-year follow-ups, radiographs were obtained and classified by the Kellgren and Lawrence (K-L) grading system. Symptoms and function were evaluated with the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) as well as isokinetic quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength tests. Results: There were 168 subjects (80%) who returned for the 20-year follow-up, with a mean (±SD) age of 45 ± 9 years, mean body mass index of 27 ± 4, and median Tegner activity level of 4 (range, 0-9). The prevalence of radiographic TF and PF OA at the 20-year follow-up was 42% and 21%, respectively. Patients with ACL injuries and other combined injuries had significantly higher prevalence of radiographic TF OA compared with those who had isolated ACL injury ( P < .0001). There was a 13% increase in radiographic TF OA ( P = .001) and an 8% increase in PF OA ( P = .015) from the 15- to the 20-year follow-up. A significant deterioration in knee symptoms and function was observed on the KOOS subscales ( P ≤ .01), with the exception of quality of life ( P = .14), as well as a decrease in quadriceps muscle strength and hamstring muscle strength ( P < .0001). Conclusion: The prevalence of radiographic TF and PF OA was 42% and 21%, respectively. A significantly higher prevalence of TF OA was found for subjects with combined injuries compared with those who had isolated ACL injury. The majority of the subjects were stable radiographically over the 5 years between follow-ups. A statistically significant deterioration in symptoms and function was noted, but the mean changes were of questionable clinical importance.
Evaluating the patient-perceived impact of clinical pharmacy services and proactive follow-up care in an ambulatory chemotherapy unit
Authors: Crespo Andrea , Tyszka Malgorzata 
Published: February 2016

Purpose To evaluate the patient-perceived impact of delivery of clinical pharmacy services, including a proactive follow-up program, on patient understanding, satisfaction, and toxicity management. Methods Patients who had received clinical pharmacy services at their initial chemotherapy treatment were identified and asked to complete a 20-point survey at the second or subsequent treatment. The services that the survey evaluated consist of face-to-face education during the first treatment and proactive telephone follow-up 3 to 7 days later. Results A total of 107 of the 112 respondents (95.5%) indicated that the time with the pharmacist at the first treatment was worthwhile and 92.6% of respondents reported that the interaction with the pharmacist increased their understanding of the medication regimen. Of the 113 respondents, the majority was either “Very Satisfied” or “Satisfied” with the time the pharmacist spent with them (94.7%), and the pharmacist’s ability to answer their questions (92.9%). In addition, survey results indicate that the clinical pharmacy input provided in the pharmacist call-back program is valuable, with 92.6% of the 82 respondents indicating that this service is worthwhile, and 91.4% of 93 respondents stating that the pharmacist input helped them to manage side-effects at home. Conclusions Survey results indicate that patients value clinical pharmacy services in the ambulatory oncology chemotherapy setting. These services contribute to improve patient understanding of the medication regimen, a high level of patient satisfaction, and self-management of treatment-related toxicities. These results support the provision of clinical pharmacy services and proactive follow-up programs in ambulatory chemotherapy units.
University Geographies and Folk Music Landscapes
Authors: Blake David K. 
Published: February 2016

By examining folk music activities connecting students and local musicians during the early 1960s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this article demonstrates how university geographies and musical landscapes influence musical activities in college towns. The geography of the University of Illinois, a rural Midwestern location with a mostly urban, middle-class student population, created an unusual combination of privileged students in a primarily working-class area. This combination of geography and landscape framed interactions between students and local musicians in Urbana-Champaign, stimulating and complicating the traversal of sociocultural differences through traditional music.
Members of the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club considered traditional music as a high cultural form distinct from mass-culture artists, aligning their interests with then-dominant scholarly approaches in folklore and film studies departments. Yet students also interrogated the impropriety of folksong presentation on campus, and community folksingers projected their own discomfort with students’ liberal politics. In hosting concerts by rural musicians such as Frank Proffitt and producing a record of local Urbana-Champaign folksingers called Green Fields of Illinois (1963), the folksong club attempted to suture these differences by highlighting the aesthetic, domestic, historical, and educational aspects of local folk music, while avoiding contemporary socioeconomic, commercial, and political concerns. This depoliticized conception of folk music bridged students and local folksingers, but also represented local music via a nineteenth-century rural landscape that converted contemporaneous lived practice into a temporally distant object of aesthetic study. Students’ study of folk music thus reinforced the power structures of university culture—but engaging local folksinging as an educational subject remained for them the most ethical solution for questioning, and potentially traversing, larger problems of inequality and difference.
AI-related BMD variation in actual practice conditions: A prospective cohort study
Authors: Rodríguez-Sanz María , Prieto-Alhambra Daniel , Servitja Sonia , Garcia-Giralt Natalia , Garrigos Laia , Rodriguez-Morera Jaime , Albanell Joan , Martínez-García Maria , González Iria , Diez-Perez Adolfo , Tusquets Ignasi , Nogués Xavier 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The aim of the study was to evaluate the progression of bone mineral density (BMD) during 3 years of aromatase inhibitors (AI) therapy in actual practice conditions. This prospective, clinical cohort study of Barcelona–Aromatase induced Bone Loss in Early breast cancer (B-ABLE) assessed BMD changes during 3 years of AI treatment in women with breast cancer. Patients with osteoporosis (T score < −2.5 or T score ≤ −2.0) and a major risk factor and/or prevalent fragility fractures were treated with oral bisphosphonates (BPs). Of 685 women recruited, 179 (26.1%) received BP treatment. By the third year of AI therapy, this group exhibited increased BMD in the lumbar spine (LS; 2.59%) and femoral neck (FN; 2.50%), although the increase was significant only within the first year (LS: 1.99% and FN: 2.04%). Despite BP therapy, however, approximately 15% of these patients lost more than 3% of their baseline bone mass. At 3 years, patients without BP experienced BMD decreases in the LS (−3.10%) and FN (−2.79%). In this group, BMD changes occurred during the first (LS: −1.33% and FN: −1.25%), second (LS: −1.19% and FN: −0.82%), and third (LS: −0.57% and FN: −0.65%) years of AI treatment. Increased BMD (>3%) was observed in just 7.6% and 10.8% of these patients at the LS and FN, respectively. Our data confirm a clinically relevant bone loss associated with AI therapy amongst nonusers of preventative BPs. We further report on the importance of BMD monitoring as well as calcium and 25-hydroxy vitamin D supplementation in these patients.
Investigation of Factors Affecting Information Literacy Student Learning Outcomes Fails to Undercover Significant Findings
Authors: Martin Jason 
Published: February 2016

Objective – To ascertain the factors influencing student learning during information literacy instruction (ILI) and create a theoretical model based on those factors.

Design – Mixed methodology consisting of interviews and an assessment test.

Setting – Three Canadian business schools.

Subjects – Seven librarians, 4 library administrators, 16 business faculty, and 52 undergraduate business students were interviewed, and the Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) test was administered to 1,087 undergraduate business students across three different business schools.

Methods – The authors used an interview script to conduct interviews with librarians, library administrators, business school faculty, and undergraduate business school students at three business schools in Canada. The authors also administered the SAILS test to undergraduate business students at the same three Canadian business schools.

Main Results – ILI works best when it is related to an assignment, part of the curriculum, periodically evaluated, adequately
funded, timely, mandatory, interactive, uses handouts, provides the proper amount of information, and favourably viewed within the school. ILI student learning outcomes are affected by whether the students find the ILI beneficial and relevant, their year in the program, gender, status as international or domestic student, and overall academic achievement.

Conclusion – Creation of theoretical model consisting of the three main factors influencing student learning outcomes in information literacy instruction: learning environment, information literacy components, and student demographics.
Better Collaborative Working is Likely to Increase Uptake of Library Resources in a University Setting
Authors: Loy John 
Published: February 2016

A review of:
Hightower, Barbara, Carolyn Rawl, and Michelle Schutt. “Collaborations for Delivering the Library to Students Through WebCT.” Reference Services Review 35.4 (2007): 541-51.

Objectives – To ascertain the extent to which university faculty members are integrating library resources within the WebCT course management system / managed learning environment. Also, to identify the reasons why faculty members are not integrating library resources within WebCT, and to explore their willingness to do so in future.

Design – Case study with survey questionnaire and selected interview follow up.

Setting – Urban campus of Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America.

Subjects – One hundred and two members of faculty received a questionnaire. Five follow-up interviews were conducted.

Methods – One hundred and two members of faculty with WebCT-supported courses received a questionnaire. They were asked to indicate if they linked to library resources, and if so which specific ones (e.g. library homepage, online catalogue, etc.). If they did not link to library resources they were asked to indicate the reason why not, either by selecting one or more of five pre-selected reasons, or by detailing their own.

Follow-up interviews were conducted with five respondents, two of whom (Education and Nursing) linked to library resources, and three of whom (from Business, Education and Science) did not.

Server log reports were also examined to identify how many students were entering library resources from WebCT.

Main Results – The survey response rate was 28% (29 individuals), and of these Nursing and Sciences were the highest users with 7 individuals in each faculty.

Of the 29 respondents only 7 (24%) currently linked to library resources. Nursing were the biggest group with 10 links (38% of the total), Science with 6 (23%) and 5 each from Liberal Arts and Education (19%). The resources chosen to link to were
•	Article databases (6)
•	Library homepage (5)
•	Ask a Librarian e-mail service(3)
•	Net library e-book collection (3)

Six other library resources scored lower and two were not linked to at all.

While few respondents actually provided links at present, 77% of those did express an interest in doing so in the future. Almost a third of respondents asked to be contacted to learn more about how to provide links and to learn more about library services.

Only 57 incidents of students linking through to library resources from WebCT occurred in the study period.

Conclusion – Numbers of faculty currently providing links from WebCT to the library is very small, and few students find their way to library resources via this route. However, interest generated by the survey and follow up indicates that this may be a valuable means of promoting library resources.
Research into the Impact of Facebook as a Library Marketing Tool is Inconclusive
Authors: Haglund Lotta , Herron David 
Published: February 2016

A Review of:
Xia, D. Z. (2009). Marketing library services through Facebook groups. Library Management 30(6/7), 469-477.

Objective – To investigate whether Facebook Groups are useful for library marketing.

Design – Content analysis of membership and activity of university library-related Facebook Groups.

Setting – Two global Facebook Groups, and the Facebook Groups of two academic libraries in the US (Rutgers University and Indiana University, both with populations in excess of 30 000 students).

Subjects – A total of 28 Facebook Groups were analyzed.

Methods – Facebook global Groups are open to all users, while Groups based in a network (e.g., a university) only allow access for those in the network. Therefore, to collect data, the
author used personal connections to log on to members’ profiles within university networks.

The 26 university Groups were selected by searching Facebook for Groups belonging to the two university networks, using the word “library.” Groups unrelated to library business were discarded. A total of 11 Groups within the Rutgers network were analyzed. Of these, only one was organized by a librarian; the rest were organized by students. From Indiana, 15 Groups were identified, three of which were organized by librarians.

In Table 1 (p. 474), all Groups are listed: 2 global Groups and 26 Groups within the two university networks. The author then visited all Groups, read all posts, and recorded the total number of members; status of each member, divided into faculty, staff and students; dates of first and last post; and discussion activity. The author analyzed group activity by keeping a tally of how often each member participated in discussions, as there was no way to see the number of times a member returned. The author also paid special attention to Groups with a large number of staff and faculty members, to gain information about the efforts of librarians to support or start new Groups.

Main Results – There were a total of 652 members in the 26 university Groups (mean number of members was 25, ranging from 2 - 176). The two global Groups had a total of 12,665 members.

Students were most active at starting new Groups, but these were on average very small (around 20 members), with very little discussion. Most discussions focused on limited topics or were event-driven, and therefore failed to retain member participation. The most active Facebook Groups were the global Groups. These Groups had a high staff and faculty membership, and librarians played an important role in promoting and maintaining group discussions.

Conclusion – According to the author, a successful Facebook Group should be managed by active organizers, and discuss a broad range of topics. Good examples of active Groups were the two global Groups. Group activity should be diverse, include discussion topics and wall posts, as well as messages sent to group members. The messages were found to be critical for library marketing as they appear as personal messages in members’ inboxes.
Further Study is Needed to Define and Measure the Use of Reflective Practice in Library and Information Science
Authors: Perryman Carol 
Published: February 2016

A review of:
Grant, Maria J. “The Role of Reflection in the Library and Information Sector: A Systematic Review.” Health Information and Libraries Journal (2007) 24: 155-166.

Objectives - To identify and review the literature of reflective practice in Library and Information Science (LIS) in order to understand its role, particularly with regard to health libraries.

Design - Systematic review

Setting - LIS English-language articles indexed in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database and published between 1969 and 2006.

Subjects - 929 citations retrieved from the LISA database.

Methods - The author conducted free text searches in the LISA database for the terms ‘reflective’ or ‘reflection*’ or ‘reflexion*.’ An initial search series was conducted in 2004 in order to retrieve items published between 1969-2003, then in 2007, for articles published between 2004-2006. In all, 929 article citations were retrieved. Exclusion criteria included those articles addressing the facilitation of reflective practices in others, as well as non-English language, and materials predating 1969. After review, 55 articles met the author’s relevance standard. Citation tracking then added 10 articles to the total. From this dataset, full text articles were obtained where possible, if determined on initial scrutiny to be deserving of further examination. Thirteen articles (.013%) were ultimately selected for analysis. These articles were categorized as analytical or non-analytical, with respect to perspective (individual or organizational), and recency of events (retrospective or recent). In addition, a determination was made about whether the articles’ focus was reflection occurring on (in retrospect to) or in (during) practice.

Main results - Of 13 articles, 5 were found to be non-analytical, with the other 6 being analytical. Three of the non-analytical items were the reflections of an individual, while the remaining 2 offered an organizational perspective. The non-analytical accounts were found to be mostly descriptive accounts by an individual, mostly retrospective and offering no consideration of implications for LIS practice. Analytical reflective accounts attempt to systematically appraise events from the recent past, and draw conclusions in order to improve future actions.

Conclusion – A gradual increase in the use of analytical reflective practice is demonstrated over the period from 1969-2006, although insufficient examples of the practice were found in the published literature. Reflective practice is likely to be beneficial to LIS practitioners, especially when time is spent in considering the implications of lessons learned from practice.