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A critique: The good and bad of a review

  • McMullen, Debbie;McClean, Rhett;Pak, Sok Cheon
    • CELLMED
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.16.1-16.3
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    • 2015
  • Evidence based medicine involves using both the individual clinician's expertise and the current best available external clinical evidence from systematic research in deciding on the appropriate care for individual patients. The current approach to evidence based practice in healthcare adds a third component which is patient values. Evidence based practice is thus a triad, in which the practitioner's expertise, research evidence and the patient's values are all given consideration. The balance to be struck between them depends on the individual case. The literature indicates that complementary medicine practitioners are moving away from traditional knowledge and towards the use of evidence based practice in their clinical discussions. In the context of the daily practice of complementary medicine practitioners and their continuing development of their knowledge base of evidence based practice, this short review discusses the good and bad of a review journal article.

Meta-Analysis of Intervention Research on Social Work Practice (사회복지실천 프로그램에 대한 메타분석 : 집단프로그램의 효과크기를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Sang-Gyun
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.40
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    • pp.131-156
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    • 2000
  • Many different intervention methods have been developed to resolve the problem of clients, but research studies evaluating the effectiveness of such practices can be overwhelming to social workers because of the conflicting results of them. In this study, meta-analysis was used to make sense of this research, offering the general effect size of social work practice. Meta-analysis can answer the question, "how effective is the intervention?" beyond the question, "is the intervention effective?". It can integrate the fragmentated results of research studies and provide the guidelines for best practice. Combining the results of the 16 research studies, this study computed the general effect size of social work interventions. The mean d index was. 6636 (95 percent confidence interval of .5355, .8018). Conversion to Cohen's $U_3$ statistics allows for the inference that three-fourths (74.7%) of the clients who participated in an intervention group did better than the average clients of non-intervention group. This means that social work interventions are practically helpful to seven of every 10 clients who experience them. In conclusion, this study recommended the usefulness of meta-analysis, which can provide the intervention strategies based on empirical research and guide the best approaches.

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A Fundamental Study for Development of a Pepper Harvester (고추수확기 개발을 위한 기초연구)

  • Lee, C.H.;Park, S.J.;Kim, C.S.;Rhee, J.Y.;Kim, Y.H.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.110-121
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    • 1993
  • Pepper has been the second important income source of Korean farmer. Provided the agricultural market in Korea is opened, pepper of which price is more than three times of the world market price can not survive with current cultivation practice. Pepper harvesters have been developed in some countries but, they are not feasible in Korea due to difference of varieties, cultivation practice and climate between Korea and other countries. This is a fundamental study to develop a pepper harvester suitable to the current situation in Korea. Physical properties of a pepper plant and its fruit were investigated. Also, a pair of open helices was selected as a pepper removing mechanism and tested to determine the best operating conditions. This study revealed that a pepper harvester with more than 90% of pepper recovery is attainable. Best rotating speed of open helices with 30cm diameter and conveying velocity of pepper main stem were determined to be 180 rpm and 0.1 m/s respectively.

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Effect of Tillage on Nonpoint Source Pollution of Surface and Ground Water System (I); Effect of Tillage Practices on Density and Saturation of Soil

  • ;shirmohammadi,Adel
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.34 no.E
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1992
  • Increasing national concern on nonpoint source pollution of surface and ground water Systems has led researchers and policy makers to develop certain agricultural Best Management Practices. As an initial step of broad study program above mentioned, this study reflected the effects of different tillage practice on bulk density and degree of saturation on two regional soils, namely Tama silt loam and Catlin silt loam. Results may help to clarify some of the conflicting findings on the impact of tillage systems on these parameters and it may also explain some of the reasons for specific role that different tillage systems play regarding nonpoint source pollution from agricultural fields.

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Problems in Psychological Debriefing and Suggestions for Best Practice (심리적 경험보고(debriefing)의 문제점들과 올바른 적용을 위한 제언)

  • Seung-yeon Lee
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.63-89
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    • 2007
  • This study introduces major models of psychological debriefing that has been utilized as an early psychological intervention after traumatic incidents and examines the controversy on the effects of psychological debriefing. It is difficult to make consistent conclusions regarding its effects based on the previous research data. Therefore, this study examines the major issues related to psychological debriefing and suggests the important points for best practice in crisis situations.

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A Study on the Content and Methodology of Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (근거중심 문헌정보실무의 내용과 방법론에 관한 연구)

  • Pyo, Soon-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.351-370
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to apply the evidence-based library and information practice(EBLIP) in Korean librarianship with analysis of concepts and research method on EBLIP. EBLIP seeks to improve library practice by utilising the best available evidence in conjunction with a pragmatic perspective developed from working experiences in librarianship. The EBLIP focused on the medicine library, however, it is spread to academic, special, school library. EBLIP process can be described through its five stage: formulate a question, find evidence, critically appraise the evidence, apply results of appraisal, evaluate change, redefine problem. It provides a standardized methodology of systematic review, which is a best evidence in EBLIP and is a new mixed research method.

A Study on the construction quality infra and it's core confidency priority for enhancing construction certification system (건설공사 품질인증시스템 향상을 위한 품질인프라 및 핵심역량 도출에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kab-Soon;Bae, Young-Ju
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.189-208
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    • 2017
  • This study is for figuring out major components of construction quality infrastructure and suggesting improvement plan by benchmarking global best practice model and analyzing gap between the model and sample practice. Based on improvement plan, researcher could derive major characters and components of construction quality infrastructure, and also about the priority among core competency components of construction quality experts. The result showed that the 'human resource' was ranked the best priority followed by 'method' 'environment', 'equipment' among major characters and components of construction quality infrastructure. Also, for core competency components of construction quality experts, 'number of years in work places' was the best priority, and the 'professional knowledge on engineering' was another priority ranked. Far from general perception on competency components, 'academic education' ranked the last. It may allude that the current education system in this country is not effective in developing competency of quality engineers. In summary, this study shows professionalism of quality engineer is the most important thing in all the components.