Sto cercando materiale per definire il fabbisogno di fisioterapisti in una azienda sanitaria pubblica. Potrei avere dei suggerimenti su riferimenti di letteratura? Grazie

Sto cercando materiale per definire il fabbisogno di fisioterapisti in una azienda sanitaria pubblica. Potrei avere dei suggerimenti su riferimenti di letteratura? Grazie

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Dear Silvia,

could you be more specific?

Cara Silvia:

Please, what exactly do you mean by “needs of rehabilitation staff”?  Space requirements: both clinical and clerical?  Physiotherapy equipment requirements: static and dynamic machines, ancillary and support material, etc.?  Percentages, or absolute numbers, of medical, nursing, technical and administrative personnel, to be assigned to the relevant rehabilitation unit?  Then, which kind of rehabilitation modalities (in-hospital/out-of-hospital) are envisioned for the latter unit?  And, of course, which is the patient load to undergo rehabilitation via the unit?  Moreover, which are the constraints (budgetary, regulatory, etc.), if any, imposed by/demanded from the Italian public health system, central/local governmental agencies, etc. and, even, the European Community directives?  And, so on…?

From the above, I fully agree with Vilemar on the convenience of being more specific in your enquiry: about a certainly very complex matter.  Indeed, in that way you may save a lot of time by not being directed to literature that really you don’t need it!: even, if done on a well-meaning suggestion.  In this regard, I have read the summary of your ad hoc uploaded paper (in Italian), and found it both very realistic and interesting: it seems that you have a very clear picture of the issue, and how to go about it!  Then, I firmly believe that if you fully translated it, or at least its summary, into English the number of people who potentially could really help you would increase considerably.  Also, a sizeable fraction of them would belong to quite different cultures, so that you may consequently have a lot of diverse views about the issue, and many ways to choose from and proceed accordingly.

Notwithstanding the above considerations, and until waiting for more specific clues, I’ll suggest to you the following useful resources to quickly get relevant literature: 

1)   At RG itself: click at the Search window at the top of your RG page; then, when the emerging search window appears, type in there key words relevant to your inquiry, e.g. physiotherapy, followed by clicking on the latter window; thus, getting a sizable number of papers related to those words: which you can view!!! by clicking at Publications on your right side!!!, under the “Browse results by” heading.  Please, find next the link to my search under “physiotherapy resources”:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=physiotherapy%20resources&previous=researcher

Is it useful?

2)   At the “Journal Rankings” web page of the bibliometric indicators database SJR: please, click the following link to get there.

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

Then, you may choose from the 5 available tabs, at the top of the page, appropriate wording and year, relevant to your inquiry - e.g. medicine, etc., to get a list of the journal(s), book(s), etc. - and their rankings – whose contents match the selected wording/year (!!! no further clicking !!!): for example, choosing “Medicine”, “Rehabilitation”, "Western Europe”, “Journals” and “2015”, one gets the results shown in the link below: 

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2742&area=2700&country=Western%20Europe&type=j 

In this particular case, there are 51 journals, in the year 2015, which may contain literature closely connected with the chosen wording, listed according to their rankings.  Moreover, open access publications are indicated by a red unlocked sign; for instance, “Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation” is one of them.  Further, one may get also, for any journal, book, etc., its field scope, relevant bibliometrics, and other pertinent information to decide which specific publication(s) may be useful to look at for a particular research, study, etc., by simply clicking on its title – in blue at your left side.  Thus, clicking on “Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation” yields the information contained in the next link:

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=16270&tip=sid&clean=0

Then, for the purpose of illustration, let’s assume that the latter journal is good to look at, for finding the desired literature.  In that case, clicking on the word “source” (in blue), at the bottom of the Scope heading of the last web page, links it to the home web page of the selected journal proper (target publication), as shown in this link:

http://www.archives-pmr.org/

Then, once at this point, one may browse the target publication as usual, following its specific searching tools, in order to get the actual sought-after information.  Thus, as an example, enter “physiotherapy resources” in the search box at the home web page of the target publication - that is, at the latter link in this particular case, and click on its “Search” button to obtain the results shown in the link below:

http://www.archives-pmr.org/action/doSearch?searchType=quick&searchText=physiotherapy+resources&occurrences=all&journalCode=yapmr&searchScope=fullSite

Thus, from a total of 165 records, there is a list of 156 articles available for further screening, in regard to getting the actual sought-after information.  Again, as a matter of illustration, let’s assume that the article in that list titled “Stratification of Treatment in a Community-Based Musculoskeletal Service: A Mixed-Methods Study to Assess Predictors of Requiring Complex Care”, exploring factors that might be relevant when designing a triage tool, is good to look at, as a potential piece of the desired literature.  In such a case, clicking on the selected article Format-button “Full-Text HTML” (in blue), at the bottom of its respective show Box in the corresponding web page of the referred list, links it to the web page of the potential full article proper (target article), as shown in the following link:

http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(15)01565-8/fulltext

Thus, once reached the target article record in the Publisher’s database, one usually may have several options – set up according to the Publisher’s policy!!! - for getting access to that record full-text.  In particular, for the present example, one may either have subscriber rights or the purchase option to fully access the target article; although, no requirements whatsoever are necessary to get both a summary and the References of the article: which, of course, may be useful in themselves for broadening the relevant searching process.

The repetition of the above steps, as required, constitutes essentially the method for searching literature on a specific field, subject, etc. at the SJR database.  At first glance, the procedure may seem to be only clumsy and tedious; but, it has the advantage, among other qualities, of providing valuable attributes – such as quality, reliability, diffusion, impact, etc. – of the root sources of information – that is, journals, books, conferences, etc.; so that one is free to choose those publications which appear to be the most suitable for the particular situation: one being effectively in control of the literature selection and, therefore, not wasting time going through available but potentially unreliable, low-quality information.  In fact, the latter approach is very useful when the particular search is done on a remote field from that of the searcher’s own expertise: when familiar and trusted authors/information sources are absent!  What, by the way - Cara Silvia, seems to be your case in relation with your own enquiry, doesn’t it? 

3)   At free digital academic databases.  In this regard, I attached herewith the following link to a list of a sizable number of academic databases, compiled by the English Wikipedia; which details the kind (and sometimes the number) of records in each one, and the way to accessing them – freely or subject to particular conditions.  Then, it appears, Silvia, that you may have enough room for choosing appropriate free databases in your search: including Google Scholar – which I assume you are familiar with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

Finally, I wish and hope that the above suggestions be useful to you.

Best regards, Arrivederci, Ángel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

Fantastico! Grazie Angel per quanto hai scritto, sicuramente tutto molto interessante.

best regards 

silvia