Rubén Cañedo Andalia

Rubén Cañedo Andalia
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Holguín · Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas

BSc in Information Sciences

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It´s a selection of the best materials published by Virtual Center for Health Learning and Research, an institution dedicated to educational and technological monitoring in the area of health information management.
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RESUMEN Introducción: en el escenario mundial, persisten insuficiencias en la formación estadística de los profesionales de la salud, en particular entre los médicos, quienes presentan claras limitaciones para actuar en situaciones que demandan la aplicación de conocimientos estadísticos. Correo Científico Médico de Holguín Recursos de información...
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Introducción: en el escenario mundial, persisten insuficiencias en la formación estadística de los profesionales de la salud, en particular entre los médicos, quienes presentan claras limitaciones para actuar en situaciones que demandan la aplicación de conocimientos estadísticos. Objetivo: identificar los recursos de información sobre bioestadíst...
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To support the teaching of Evidence Based Medicine.
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To support the teaching of Evidence Based Medicine
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To support the teaching of Evedence Based Medicine.
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In order to discover the patterns of scientific collaboration and its impact on citation rates for Cuban health research by areas of knowledge from 2009 to 2013, Scival, as a platform for scientometrical studies developed by Elsevier from Scopus data, was explored regarding the chosen countries and indicators. Compared with the Latin American count...
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In order to discover the patterns of scientific collaboration and its impact on citation rates for Cuban health research by areas of knowledge from 2009 to 2013, Scival, as a platform for scientometrical studies developed by Elsevier from Scopus data, was explored regarding the chosen countries and indicators. Compared with the Latin American count...
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Con el objetivo de determinar el comportamiento de los índices de citación de la investigación en salud de Cuba, procesada en Scopus en el periodo 2009-2013, con respecto a un grupo de países latinoamericanos seleccionados, se examinaron los datos suministrados por Scival, su plataforma para estudios cienciométricos, según áreas del conocimiento, a...
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With the purpose of identifying citation differences between publications by Cuban authors in national and foreign journals in the topic areas of Health Sciences and Medicine, a bibliographic search was conducted in Scopus database from 1996 to 2002. A total 16 461 references were found to authors from Cuban health institutions. Of these, 55,68 % c...
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Introduction: the analysis of the scientific output of an author, organization or region allows to measure its development in science. Objective: to identify the scientific production of researchers affiliated with the Provincial Health System of Holguin, processed in the PubMed database between 2010 and 2014. Methods: a strategy was developed and...
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La búsqueda y recuperación de información es una etapa fundamental del quehacer científico. La búsqueda de información en bases de datos bibliográficas internacionales prominentes es una práctica común en este contexto. Pero, antes de realizar una búsqueda de información en una de estas, es necesario conocer qué contienen y cuán similares y diferen...
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Difficulties to unequivocally identify authors in global bibliographic production have increased in recent years. This is due to the growth of such production and the identification devices used by authors, editors and producers of information resources, such as databases. A mechanism is thus required to unify all the forms of identification of a g...
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With the purpose of identifying citation differences between publications by Cuban authors in national and foreign journals in the topic areas of Health Sciences and Medicine, a bibliographic search was conducted in Scopus database from 1996 to 2002. A total 16 461 references were found to authors from Cuban health institutions. Of these, 55,68% co...
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Information search and retrieval is a fundamental stage in scientific activity. The search for information in prominent international bibliographic databases is common practice in this context. However, before conducting an information search in databases, it is necessary to be aware of their contents, as well as the similarities and differences be...
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Difficulties to unequivocally identify authors in global bibliographic production have increased in recent years. This is due to the growth of such production and the identification devices used by authors, editors and producers of information resources, such as databases. A mechanism is thus required to unify all the forms of identification of a g...
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RESUMEN Con el objetivo de determinar las diferencias de cobertura de la producción científica en salud de Cuba en las bases de datos Medline-PubMed, Embase y Scopus en el período 1996-2012, se realizó una exploración minuciosa de las bases de datos referidas por medio de un conjunto de estrategias de búsqueda diseñadas para estos fines. La diferen...
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Scopus citation indexes for contributions by Cuban authors in the field of health sciences were identified and compared with those of selected Latin American countries to determine and explain their behavior based on the distribution of certain variables of interest. Use was made of SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Cuban scientific production in hea...
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Objectives: identify the Cuban scientific production about health registered in PubMed database in the period 2010-2012, examine its behavior on the basis of variables of interest with the purpose of raising its international visibility, and analyze its correspondence with the development of the National Health System. Methods: an analysis was cond...
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Background: informatization of society is impossible without information literacy. Accordingly, in 2007 Infomed started a Program for the Information Literacy of the National Health System, aimed at developing information competencies in all health professionals. At that moment, a strategy was required which would realize the potential of the novel...
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The world today is experiencing rapid change. The information industry is an important example of such change. In order to illustrate this process and analyze their most important consequences for health publication in Cuba, a series of events related to the increased presence of health and biomedical journals from Latin America in the products and...
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With the purpose of determining the differences in the coverage of Cuban scientific production about health in databases Medline-PubMed, Embase and Scopus in the period 1996-2012, a detailed examination was conducted of these databases based on a number of dedicated search strategies. The total percentage difference between the coverage of scientif...
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Present-day society is amidst a process of rapid change characterized by an intense power struggle in all sectors of human life. The information industry in particular, with its technologies, products and services, is experiencing fast growth and transformation. With the purpose of illustrating this process, a study was conducted of bibliographic i...
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Background: informatization of society is impossible without information literacy. Accordingly, in 2007 Infomed started a Program for the Information Literacy of the National Health System, aimed at developing information competencies in all health professionals. At that moment, a strategy was required which would realize the potential of the novel...
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Objectives: identify the Cuban scientific production about health registered in PubMed database in the period 2010-2012, examine its behavior on the basis of variables of interest with the purpose of raising its international visibility, and analyze its correspondence with the development of the National Health System. Methods: an analysis was cond...
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Scopus citation indexes for contributions by Cuban authors in the field of health sciences were identified and compared with those of selected Latin American countries to determine and explain their behavior based on the distribution of certain variables of interest. Use was made of SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Cuban scientific production in hea...
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Cuban health scientific production registered in Scopus and PubMed databases was broken down by source institution applying search strategies especially developed for this purpose. Determination was also made of whether contributions came from the health sector itself or other areas. Results were examined and identification was made of the source o...
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RESUMEN La gestión ambiental empresarial es el factor determinante para una efectiva gestión epidemiológica desde la concepción de la estrategia empresarial, y para su dinamización se utiliza un modelo teórico sustentado en un procedimiento, enriquecido por la Ley 81, la estrategia ambiental nacional 2007-2010; las normas cubanas para la gestión am...
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Introducción: la incorporación de revistas médicas cubanas a Scopus, permitió que miles de contribuciones de autores cubanos del campo de la salud, publicadas en revistas nacionales, disfruten actualmente de una alta visibilidad internacional. Es importante, entonces, preocuparse por el impacto internacional de la producción científica de Cuba en e...
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From the moment the enterprise strategy is devised, environmental management is a key factor for effective epidemiological management. To dynamize environmental management, a theoretical model is used which is based on a procedure enriched by Law 81, the National Environmental Strategy 2007-2010, the Cuban environmental management standards, Decree...
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Present-day society is amidst a process of rapid change characterized by an intense power struggle in all sectors of human life. The information industry in particular, with its technologies, products and services, is experiencing fast growth and transformation. With the purpose of illustrating this process, a study was conducted of bibliographic i...
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Cuban health scientific production registered in Scopus and PubMed databases was broken down by source institution applying search strategies especially developed for this purpose. Determination was also made of whether contributions came from the health sector itself or other areas. Results were examined and identification was made of the source o...
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In the late twentieth century, quality became a central aspect of the debate on health care. The exercise of a medicine that uses conscious, explicit and rationally the best clinical evidence available to make decisions about patient care involves integrating individual clinical expertise with evidence or evidence of more consistent and reliable re...
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In the late twentieth century, quality became a central aspect of the debate on health care. The exercise of a medicine that uses conscious, explicit and rationally the best clinical evidence available to make decisions about patient care involves integrating individual clinical expertise with evidence or evidence of more consistent and reliable re...
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La introducción de nuevas concepciones para el ejercicio de la práctica clínicaa finales del siglo XX produjo cambios sustanciales en la literatura médicadedicada a los cuidados de salud del paciente. Como consecuencia, secrearon, desarrollaron, consolidaron y multiplicaron antiguas y nuevas clasesde informes de investigación y otros tipos de docum...
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Con el propósito de caracterizar la producción científica documental de Cuba registrada en Scopus y PubMed en el periodo 2001-2010 y determinar su visibilidad en dichas bases; así como su comportamiento, según variables escogidas, tanto en revistas nacionales como extranjeras, se desarrollaron y ejecutaron diversas estrategias de búsqueda para su c...
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RESUMEN Se trata el lugar y la importancia del estudio de las necesidades profesionales de información en la gestión de la información/conocimiento en las instituciones de salud; así como de los profesionales de la información y sus relaciones usuario-bibliotecario y bibliotecario-institución para el éxito de dicha gestión. El estudio de las necesi...
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The recent emergence of novel indicators as the Eigen factor, the SCImago journal rank and the Source normalized impact per paper have increased interest in metric evaluation of scientific and academic journals. As a rule, they intend to reduce the limitations mentioned repeatedly to the classical impact factor and introduce new perspectives for ev...
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Present-day society is amidst a process of rapid change characterized by an intense power struggle in all sectors of human life. The information industry in particular, with its technologies, products and services, is experiencing fast growth and transformation. With the purpose of illustrating this process, a study was conducted of bibliographic i...
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The recent emergence of novel indicators as the Eigen factor, the SCImago journal rank and the Source normalized impact per paper have increased interest in metric evaluation of scientific and academic journals. As a rule, they intend to reduce the limitations mentioned repeatedly to the classical impact factor and introduce new perspectives for ev...
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RESUMEN Con el objetivo de consolidar un conjunto de elementos fundamentales relacionados con la medicina basada en evidencias, útiles a los profesionales de la información en salud sin una formación avanzada en el tema, se sintetizan algunos de los aspectos claves en ésta área del conocimiento. Se exponen, en forma abreviada, una serie de aspectos...
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El factor de impacto es uno de los índices cienciométricos más determinante del futuro de las revistas biomédicas, los investigadores y los centros de investigación. A pesar de sus utilidades no está exento de limitaciones. Los ensayos clínicos y meta-análisis en cardiología se publican casi exclusivamente en revistas con un alto factor de impacto....
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The general search engines are search tools the most popular on the Web. Perhaps for this reason too they are in many academic circles. However, there is often an incorrect operation of these tools, both for the place where they are located in all available information resources in a discipline, as underemployment of the facilities offered by their...
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The general search engines are search tools the most popular on the Web. Perhaps for this reason too they are in many academic circles. However, there is often an incorrect operation of these tools, both for the place where they are located in all available information resources in a discipline, as underemployment of the facilities offered by their...
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From the perspective of the literacy and search of the information, there is an urgent need of know some basic elements on the indexing and retrieval of the information before to introduce students in the information search in the databases offering the chance to explore the collections by means of controlled vocabularies. Indexing and search of in...
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Infomed is a non-profit-making institution whose essential objective is to convert scientific and technical information in an indispensable component in the service of improvement of Cuban health. Thus, this institution has a wide network of products, services and information source traditional and updated as well as a wide range of specialists and...
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Infomed is a non-profit-making institution whose essential objective is to convert scientific and technical information in an indispensable component in the service of improvement of Cuban health. Thus, this institution has a wide network of products, services and information source traditional and updated as well as a wide range of specialists and...
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From the perspective of the literacy and search of the information, there is an urgent need of know some basic elements on the indexing and retrieval of the information before to introduce students in the information search in the databases offering the chance to explore the collections by means of controlled vocabularies. Indexing and search of in...
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The literature search is a time constraint of research as the central process of scientific activity. However, often receives little attention among researchers and this is a factor in their poor research in this activity. It sets out a form as simple as possible for effective information search database from PubMed-Medline through Hinari in order...
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Scopus is the largest database of citations and abstracts of refereed literature and high quality sources on the Web. Although it is distributed by subscription, is available with certain limitations for developing countries through Hinari. Despite the multidisciplinary nature of its collection, this includes more than 4300 journals in life science...
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SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal and informetric and scientometric indicators allowing researchers, publishers, information specialists and policy makers in science, especially in underdeveloped countries, monitoring of performance and impact of their contributions all over world. He uses the extensive collection of literature available i...
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Scopus is the largest database of citations and abstracts of refereed literature and high quality sources on the Web. Although it is distributed by subscription, is available with certain limitations for developing countries through Hinari. Despite the multidisciplinary nature of its collection, this includes more than 4300 journals in life science...
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SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal and informetric and scientometric indicators allowing researchers, publishers, information specialists and policy makers in science, especially in underdeveloped countries, monitoring of performance and impact of their contributions all over world. He uses the extensive collection of literature available i...
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With the aim to characterize the scientific production in the health sciences area in Cuba, we analyzed a group of metric studies make by National Centre of Health Sciences Information-Infomed on this topic. The importance of the process of Cuban scientific production in the largest database to obtain high international visibility is analyzed. Fina...
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The literature search is a time constraint of research as the central process of scientific activity. However, often receives little attention among researchers and this is a factor in their poor research in this activity. It sets out a form as simple as possible for effective information search database from PubMed-Medline through Hinari in order...
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With the aim to characterize the scientific production in the health sciences area in Cuba, we analyzed a group of metric studies make by National Centre of Health Sciences Information-Infomed on this topic. The importance of the process of Cuban scientific production in the largest database to obtain high international visibility is analyzed. Fina...
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La producción de informes de ensayos clínicos es un indicador confiable del desarrollo de la investigación en el sector de la salud. Con el objetivo de cuantificar y caracterizar la producción de informes de ensayos clínicos de Cuba en la base de datos PubMed durante el decenio 1999-2008, se determinó su número, así como su distribución, según inst...
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The climate and the organizational culture are two very important components for increasing the knowledge process and the culture. The organizational climate is a essential component in the socialization process. Culture socialization and of the knowledge in an organization is a fundamental premise for its success in times where collaboration is a...
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The climate and the organizational culture are two very important components for increasing the knowledge process and the culture. The organizational climate is a essential component in the socialization process. Culture socialization and of the knowledge in an organization is a fundamental premise for its success in times where collaboration is a...
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The scientific production published by MEDISAN electronic journal from Santiago de Cuba in the period 2004-2007 was studied aiming to characterize that production as well as the bibliographical references used for the production. The documental typology was observed and the most frequent themes of investigation. The Price index for the articles was...
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Se estudió la producción científica publicada por la revista electrónica provincial MEDISAN, de Santiago de Cuba, en el período 2004-2007, con el objetivo de caracterizar dicha producción así como las referencias bibliográficas utilizadas para su generación. Se observó la tipología documental y las temáticas de investigación más frecuentes. Se dete...
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Aiming to analyze and characterize the scientific production in Cuba as well as another Iberoamerican countries, the total production done by each country was determined in the PubMed database, as well as the percentage published in each national journal and in the English language. In the case of Cuba, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of th...
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Aiming to analyze and characterize the scientific production in Cuba as well as another Iberoamerican countries, the total production done by each country was determined in the PubMed database, as well as the percentage published in each national journal and in the English language. In the case of Cuba, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of th...
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We are stepping up to the molecular medicine era in which each person based on the genetic features will receive a personalized assistance in every moment of their lives. Medicine schools introduce very fast changes in their curricula vitae and the information systems are getting ready for that new era. A panoramic of multiple resources of informat...

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