ABSTRACT Objective: To create specialized nursing terminology for the care of people with COVID-19. Methods: Methodological study, carried out based on identification concepts related to person infection, present in official guidelines Brazilian Ministry Health; were validated by three specialist nurses; and a cross-mapping extracted was done CIPE® 2019 primitive concepts. Results: Out 436 uniq...

The Specialized Dental Care Centers (SDCC) have the mission to expand access to public medium complexity dental care and support the primary health care actions at this level of complexity. However, it is necessary to ensure the quality of services and to evaluate such services continuously to identify weaknesses and strengths that support the processes of leadership/management. Nevertheless, t...

At one time it was unusual for subjects like "MIedical Care Needs," or "Clinic Reorganization" to be dealt witlh in scientific journals. Professional groups, (internists, pediatricians, surgeons) now give such practical matters a corner of their program andl one or two rooms at the conference. The scientific journals follow along. This is part of the new temper of the times: challenge in social...

In Japan, all citizens are covered by the national insurance system in which universal free access to healthcare services is promised to everybody. Even in tertiary care university hospitals, considerable numbers of secondary care inpatients are supposed to be treated. We studied the mixed state of secondary care and tertiary care in university hospitals in Japan and its year-to-year trend. Bas...

OBJECTIVE To compare in-hospital outcomes in aortic surgery in our cardiac surgery unit, before and after foundation of our Center for Aortic Surgery (CTA). METHODS Prospective cohort with non-concurrent control. Foundation of CTA required specialized training of surgical, anesthetic and intensive care unit teams, routine neurological monitoring, endovascular and hybrid facilities, training o...

BACKGROUND Pediatric urologic specialists have been excluded from many recent managed care contracts because they are believed to be more expensive and of no better quality than general urologists in managing common urologic problems in children. We believed this to be inaccurate. OBJECTIVES To compare the length of stay at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center for 2 comm...