Distant Reader - journal-amJInfectControl-cord

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-30 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader cord process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of CORD, a data set of scholarly articles on the topic of COVID-19. The actual query was: facet_journal:"Am J Infect Control". The results of this query were saved in a cache and transformed into a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 72 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 278,953 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,874 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 47. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

infection, care, health, patients, control, transmission, study, respiratory, use, patient, risk, hand, may, covid, hygiene, hospital, infections, sars, data, used, associated, disease, infectious, also, air, outbreak, based, studies, staff, virus, cases, contact, time, cov, medical, hcws, using, prevention, influenza, among, clinical, healthcare, pathogens, results, precautions, isolation, settings, however, reported, room

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings, The effectiveness of hand hygiene procedures in reducing the risks of infections in home and community settings including handwashing and alcohol-based hand sanitizers, and Moving beyond hand hygiene monitoring as a marker of infection prevention performance: Development of a tailored infection control continuous quality improvement tool.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

health care, infection control, hand hygiene, respiratory syndrome, staphylococcus aureus, acute respiratory, public health, severe acute, care settings, united states, care facilities, infectious agents, intensive care, care workers, resistant staphylococcus, infection prevention, infectious diseases, risk perception, patient care, protective equipment, care unit, healthcare workers, infect control, control measures, control doi, doc id, cord uid, indoor air, reusable gowns, term care, user seal, personal protective, hong kong, control practices, respiratory tract, infectious disease, seal check, standard precautions, environmental contamination, log reduction, airborne transmission, novel coronavirus, care facility, gross leakage, nosocomial infection, disease control, syndrome coronavirus, world health, confirmed cases, control practice

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings Moving beyond hand hygiene monitoring as a marker of infection prevention performance: Development of a tailored infection control continuous quality improvement tool, and The practice of infection control and applied epidemiology: A historical perspective.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

sars, covid-19, patient, ppe, infection, health, mers, hygiene, room, n95, mrsa, hand, air, uvgi, united, staphylococcus, pathogen, indoor, icu, face, control, china, cdc, wtp, vre, vitamin, vap, vaccination, user, use, twitter, transmission, training, temperature, tat, taiwan, svpcr, surveillance, study, states, standard, stage, shield, seal, rsw, rsv, rpe, rna, risk, respiratory

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be infection, and Evaluation of an Electrostatic Spray Disinfectant Technology for Rapid Decontamination of Portable Equipment and Large Open Areas in the Era of SARS-CoV-2 is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

infection, care, control - 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings
patients, covid, study - Implementing the comprehensive unit-based safety program model to improve the management of mechanically ventilated patients in Saudi Arabia
air, uv, uvgi - Zinc pyrithione in alcohol-based products for skin antisepsis: Persistence of antimicrobial effects
gowns, face, use - Disposable versus Reusable Medical Gowns: A Performance Comparison
health, risk, public - Middle East respiratory syndrome risk perception among students at a university in South Korea, 2015

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

infection, care, patients, health, transmission, control, study, risk, use, infections, hand, data, hygiene, hospital, outbreak, air, studies, patient, disease, cases, staff, virus, time, contact, pathogens, isolation, settings, nurses, results, room, influenza, surfaces, contamination, home, exposure, hands, hospitals, precautions, healthcare, prevention, system, gowns, measures, factors, hcws, surveillance, community, workers, test, equipment

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

using, including, associated, based, provided, report, increasing, preventing, required, reduce, identifies, compare, found, shows, infect, followed, related, needed, suggest, develop, improve, determined, performed, caused, recommended, tested, considered, confirmed, assess, detects, occurs, conducted, indicate, received, made, involved, result, evaluate, demonstrated, contaminated, wear, control, allowed, implemented, produced, giving, described, worked, remained, known

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

SARS, COVID-19, PPE, Control, Health, N95, CoV-2, UVGI, Staphylococcus, MERS, MRSA, Infection, United, CDC, HCWs, States, China, H1N1, CoV, US, ICU, VRE, National, Hospital, Prevention, C, Table, ABHS, Precautions, M, J, Committee, Healthcare, GI, Disease, A, Care, Standard, Kong, Hong, Safety, World, PCR, Ebola, RT, S, ED, Fig, RSV, Organization

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

their, it, we, our, they, its, them, you, i, your, themselves, his, he, my, us, her, one, itself, she, oneself, me, him, y42o6exe, pad/, ourselves, ours, ii.f.2.a, i.e.2, i.b.3.e, cord-271187-rlevoj41, 's

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

respiratory, infectious, medical, clinical, airborne, environmental, patient, resistant, high, positive, acute, significant, severe, negative, nosocomial, public, different, important, viral, effective, higher, new, available, human, surgical, potential, many, first, protective, several, personal, bacterial, single, covid-19, possible, specific, long, standard, low, current, large, intensive, key, non, social, appropriate, reusable, asymptomatic, common, early

also, however, well, significantly, therefore, respectively, even, potentially, often, especially, approximately, particularly, frequently, still, less, previously, first, prior, highly, generally, statistically, currently, relatively, now, commonly, eg, usually, together, rather, furthermore, rapidly, directly, finally, alone, additionally, recently, quickly, always, mainly, subsequently, primarily, almost, typically, mechanically, least, specifically, regardless, just, increasingly, yet

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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