Medicina intensiva
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Letter Case Reports
[Herpes simplex virus type 1 pneumonia in a male with familial lung fibrosis].
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Community-acquired Legionella Pneumonia in the intensive care unit: Impact on survival of combined antibiotic therapy.
To compare intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) caused by Legionella pneumophila receiving combined therapy or monotherapy. ⋯ Combined antibiotic therapy decreases mortality in patients with SCAP and shock caused by L. pneumophila.
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Multicenter Study
[Life-sustaining treatment limitation criteria upon admission to the intensive care unit: results of a Spanish national multicenter survey].
To determine the life-sustaining treatment limitation (LSTL) predisposition upon patient admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), the criteria upon which such predisposition is based, and whether these decisions are related to structural factors of the surveyed hospitals. ⋯ Admission to ICU with LSTL is a generalized practice in Spanish Hospitals. LSTL is decided based on physiological futility from an objective medical point of view, but also in observance of ethical and moral implications based on the qualitative futility of medical care.
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Review
[Google Scholar and the h-index in biomedicine: the popularization of bibliometric assessment].
The aim of this study is to review the features, benefits and limitations of the new scientific evaluation products derived from Google Scholar, such as Google Scholar Metrics and Google Scholar Citations, as well as the h-index, which is the standard bibliometric indicator adopted by these services. The study also outlines the potential of this new database as a source for studies in Biomedicine, and compares the h-index obtained by the most relevant journals and researchers in the field of intensive care medicine, based on data extracted from the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Results show that although the average h-index values in Google Scholar are almost 30% higher than those obtained in Web of Science, and about 15% higher than those collected by Scopus, there are no substantial changes in the rankings generated from one data source or the other. Despite some technical problems, it is concluded that Google Scholar is a valid tool for researchers in Health Sciences, both for purposes of information retrieval and for the computation of bibliometric indicators.