Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Cross Infection ; epidemiology ; prevention & control ; Infection Control

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Epidemiologic Methods ; Forecasting

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Biomarkers, Tumor ; Epidemiologic Methods ; Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; epidemiology ; Prognosis

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Epidemiologic Research Design ; Molecular Epidemiology

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Epidemiology ; Genomics

PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify contents and trends of Korean nursing doctoral dissertations in terms of research methodology and theoretical characteristics. METHODS: The design of the study was descriptive study and a total of 1,089 quantitative studies completed between 1982 and 2010 were reviewed using the analytical framework developed by the researchers. RESULTS: The majority of studies utilized the experimental design (51.5%) and the others were survey design (38.8%) and methodological design (5.0%). Study subjects were shown as patients (45%), care givers (11.2%), ordinary persons (40.6%) and others (3.2%). There were growing trends in experimental design and patients as subjects. The prevailing data collection settings were hospitals (45.8%) and community (27.8%). The theoretical frameworks that studies were based on were the existing theories (37%) and a newly developed theoretical framework by a researcher (25.2%). a framework derived from other studies by the researcher (25.2%). Majority of studies (78.5%) employed a single theory as a theoretical framework. However, 31.8% of studies had no theoretical framework based on. CONCLUSION: Findings of this study provided the opportunities to shed new light on the current status of Korean doctoral dissertation and to deliberate on the future direction of nursing studies in Korea.
Caregivers ; Databases, Factual ; Dissertations, Academic as Topic ; *Education, Nursing, Graduate ; Hospitals ; Humans ; Nursing Research/*trends ; Patients ; Republic of Korea ; Research Design/trends ; Residence Characteristics ; Schools

This article introduced a new clinical research evaluating system, Faculty of 1000 Medicine (F1000M), in which articles are selected, rated, and evaluated by its faculty of over 10 000 expert scientists and clinical researchers engaging in more than 3 000 peer-reviewed journals. It is a kind of post-publication peer review. A few evaluated articles about Chinese medicine were selected and introduced. It is hoped that F1000 could inspire both traditional Chinese medicine researchers and Western medicine researchers to conduct good quality research and write good clinical research reports.
Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Biomedical Research ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Peer Review

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Humans ; Otolaryngology ; trends ; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures ; methods ; Thyroidectomy ; methods

Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Bibliometrics ; China ; Health Systems Agencies ; Occupational Diseases ; prevention & control ; Publishing

The title is the epitome as well as a most important part of an article. An effective title is required to be concise, informative and sensitive to electronic retrieval. In writing an English title for an andrological paper, the Chinese author should have a good knowledge of their basic requirements, functional types, common syntactic structures and unique language features. Besides, he must be aware of the discrepancies between the Chinese and the English people in their culture-oriented ways of thinking and representation and break away from the influence of their native language so as to produce an effective and idiomatic English title.
Academic Dissertations as Topic ; Andrology ; Language ; Writing