This qualitative study aimed to find the values and principles steering health professionals' practice, in order to reach the values guiding humanization. The study took place between October and November 2005, when 17 professionals from a multiprofessional team at a hospital in the South of Brazil were interviewed in three different samples. The methodology used for comparative data analysis a...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...