Tailoring Reports to Stakeholder Needs: Combining Data from Digital Commons Content Inventory and Dashboards

Since implementing our institutional repository in 2014, the Library at Advocate Aurora Health has worked closely with Aurora graduate medical education (GME) to capture and showcase the scholarly activity coming out of their residency and fellowship programs. In early 2022, in an effort to reduce duplicative efforts, this partnership evolved to make the Advocate Aurora Health Institutional Repository the sole place where this scholarly activity was captured and reported out from. In this lightning talk, I will explain how we worked with our stakeholders and the vendor to accomplish this. First, we met with Aurora GME\u27s research support team to better understand their new reporting needs. With this knowledge, we then worked with bepress to find out where the disparate pieces of necessary information were available and to also add custom metadata when necessary. Finally, we created a workflow where we combined data points only available in the Digital Commons Content Inventory reports with data points only available in Dashboard reports and presented them in a single, simplified report that met stakeholder requirements

Getting Creative: Implementing Fan Favorite Voting in Digital Commons Event

Problem/Scenario: The coordinators of our institution\u27s 2023 Scientific Day event wanted to allow attendees to cast votes for a new Fan Favorite poster award and they asked library staff for help in making this possible. Library staff maintain the institutional repository (IR) for our large health care system, and posters from Scientific Day are deposited in the IR so they are visible to judges and attendees during the virtual event. Our Digital Commons IR did not have a built-in voting system, so library staff used Springshare\u27s LibWizard and our HTML and design skills to add Like buttons to conference posters in the IR. Methods: There were two different categories of posters that were eligible for a Fan Favorite award, so two polls were created in LibWizard. Each submission was added to the appropriate LibWizard poll and given a unique code. A Like button was designed in PowerPoint, and the graphic was saved in Springshare\u27s image manager. The Like button was added to a preexisting HTML-enabled field in each conference poster in our IR and the image was linked to a LibWizard poll with the submission preselected. Conference attendees had only to click the Like button and then Submit within the survey to cast their Fan Favorite votes. Conclusions: Attendees submitted over 450 votes during the Scientific Day virtual conference and two Fan Favorite designations were awarded. Using the voting button to increase attendee engagement was a success, although we did learn some valuable lessons for future events

A Dual Conversation About Mentoring: Undergraduate Student Faculty Perspectives

This poster was presented at the Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Chi Regional Research Conference in Shreveport, LA.https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/fac_posters/1003/thumbnail.jp

Young Men With Cancer Experience Low Referral Rates for Fertility Counseling and Sperm Banking.

PURPOSE: With improved cancer survival rates and the current trend of delaying parenthood, fertility is a growing issue among cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of fertility counseling and sperm banking in reproductive-age male cancer patients and to assess factors that influence counseling and banking. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Male patients ages 13 to 50 years who received a new cancer diagnosis from January 1, 2013, to May 1, 2015, and planned to initiate curative chemotherapy at our center were identified. Documentation of fertility counseling and sperm cryopreservation was abstracted from the medical record. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression modeling was used to examine variables associated with fertility counseling and sperm banking. RESULTS: Of 201 patients who fit the study criteria, 59 (29%) received fertility counseling and 23 (11%) attempted sperm banking. All patients who banked sperm had documentation of fertility counseling. Younger patients were significantly more likely to be counseled, with mean ages of 27.4 and 40.4 years for counseled and noncounseled patients, respectively (P < .001). Among counseled patients, those with a lower median income (P = .038) or who had Medicaid or no insurance (P = .042) were less likely to bank sperm. In a multivariable logistic regression model, older age (5-year odds ratio, 0.61; P < .001) and presence of comorbidities (odds ratio, 0.15; P = .03) remained significantly associated with a lower counseling rate. CONCLUSION: There is a low rate of fertility counseling and referral for sperm banking in young men with cancer receiving chemotherapy. Further work is needed to develop interventions to improve fertility counseling rates and opportunities for sperm banking

Stop Signs: The Intersection of Interdental Fricatives and Identity in Newfoundland

Investigating local linguistic norms to discover larger patterns of language behaviour has been standard practice in sociolinguistic study. Looking closely at socially salient variables reveals patterns that problematize accepted trajectories of variation as traditional and newly emerging sociolinguistic identities interact. This paper integrates findings from multiple complementary projects to describe the forces influencing the stopping of interdental fricatives (dis ting for this thing), a highly salient marker of Newfoundland English, in and around St. John’s, the province’s major city. In urbanizing communities multivariate analysis reveals variation patterns typical of dialect erosion: older men maintain traditional norms while younger women move toward the standard, especially in linguistically salient contexts. In the same communities, a timing-based approach finds that young women seem to be agentively inserting stopped forms, suggesting that they have adopted a system with fricatives as the default choice. When we contrast urban and rural communities and affiliations, we find a more complex pattern: style shifting is greatest among urban males and rural females. We posit that these seemingly divergent patterns result from efforts by speakers to position themselves within the local social landscape during a period of rapid social change

Coordination of Care for Breast Reconstruction Patients: A Provider Survey

OBJECTIVES: Communication between medical oncologists (MOs) and plastic surgeons (PSs) is important to optimize outcomes for patients with breast cancer seeking breast reconstruction. We sought to evaluate the knowledge MOs and PSs have of each others' fields, roles expected of each other, and frequency of communication. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a convenience sample of MOs and PSs. The survey included knowledge questions about reconstruction and chemotherapy, questions about provider and patient responsibilities for timely chemotherapy initiation, and questions about communication with other specialties. RESULTS: MOs and PSs had similar knowledge scores (MOs, 59%; PSs, 56%; P = .5), but both lacked knowledge about aspects of the other specialty's field related to breast reconstruction. The MOs and PSs agreed on the MOs' degree of responsibility for timely chemotherapy initiation (MOs mean, 4.6; PSs mean, 4.4 (out of 5); P = .2). However, they disagreed about the PS's responsibility for timely chemotherapy initiation (MOs mean, 3.8; PSs mean, 3.0; P = .01). Communication occurred about 2.5 times more often for patients with complications than patients without complications (P < .0001). CONCLUSION: MOs and PSs have deficits in knowledge about each other fields and differ in their opinion regarding the burden of responsibility in ensuring timely chemotherapy initiation, suggesting room for improvement in communication and understanding

Development of a Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay for Predicting Macrolide and Tetracycline Resistance Associated with Bacterial Pathogens of Bovine Respiratory Disease

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is an emerging concern that may threaten both animal and public health. Rapid and accurate detection of AMR is essential for prudent drug therapy selection during BRD outbreaks. This study aimed to develop a multiplex quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay (qPCR) to provide culture-independent information regarding the phenotypic AMR status of BRD cases and an alternative to the gold-standard, culture-dependent test. Bovine clinical samples (297 lung and 111 nasal) collected in Nebraska were subjected to qPCR quantification of macrolide (MAC) and tetracycline (TET) resistance genes and gold-standard determinations of AMR of BRD pathogens. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to classify AMR based on the qPCR results. For lung tissues, the qPCR method showed good agreement with the gold-standard test for both MACs and TETs, with a sensitivity of 67–81% and a specificity higher than 80%. For nasal swabs, qPCR results passed validation criteria only for TET resistance detection, with a sensitivity of 88%, a specificity of 80% and moderate agreement. The culture-independent assay developed here provides the potential for more rapid AMR characterization of BRD cases directly from clinical samples at equivalent accuracy and higher time efficiency compared with the gold-standard, culture-based test

Emerging Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: Myths, Meaning and Motivations

This report contributes to the understanding of, and conversation about, how to develop emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. It provides recommendations for various stakeholders of the sector, including funders. A bibliography is included