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Profile of general hospitals in the Unified Health System

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To characterize the organization of Brazilian general hospitals that provide services to the Unified Health System using indicators that describe the main dimensions of hospital care. METHODS A 2015 cross-sectional observational study, comprising the range of general hospitals that...

Healthcare telemonitoring and business dynamics: challenges and opportunities for SUS

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To point out challenges and opportunities for the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) with the use of telemonitoring to face the increasing costs of non-communicable chronic diseases, based on its general panorama in Brazil, business dynamics and reapplication of data from American...

Notificações e internações por lesão autoprovocada em adolescentes no Brasil, 2007-2016

Resumo Objetivo: descrever o perfil das notificações e internações de lesões autoprovocadas envolvendo adolescentes no Brasil. Métodos: estudo descritivo, com dados do Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (Sinan) (2011-2014) e do Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do Sistema Ã...

Hospital care for elderly COVID-19 patients

Objective: to analyze the newspaper articles on hospital care for elderly COVID-19 patients in online newspapers. Method: documentary, retrospective, descriptive and exploratory research. The data were collected from articles published on open-access websites of 12 newspapers from the following countrie...

Performance of the rapid triage conducted by nurses at the emergency entrance

Objective: to compare the performance of the rapid triage conducted by nurses at the emergency entrance and of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) in identifying the priority level of care for patients with spontaneous demand and predicting variables related to hospitalization. Method: a cross-sectional ...

Construction and validation of an instrument for the structural assessment of wards for urinary continence in older adults

Objective: to build and validate an instrument for structural assessment of wards for the preservation of urinary continence in hospitalized older adults. Method: this is a methodological study divided into two stages. The first corresponded to an integrative literature review that guided the constructi...

Gasto público en prestaciones hospitalarias y extrahospitalarias en el modelo de salud mental comunitaria en Chile

Saúde Soc; 29 (3), 2020
Resumen El presente trabajo analiza el gasto público en salud mental en el marco de la implementación del modelo comunitario en Chile. Para ello, examina el mecanismo de financiamiento y la asignación de recursos financieros en salud mental considerando los recursos ejecutados en prestaciones hospital...

Relation between causes of hospitalization and self-care in older adults with diabetes mellitus 2

Texto & contexto enferm; 29 (spe), 2020
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between self-care and the causes of hospitalization, in older adults with Diabetes mellitus 2. Method: quantitative, descriptive approach. Adults over 60 years old and older, hospitalized in medical and surgical centers, attended from August to December 2...

Internações e custos hospitalares por quedas em idosos brasileiros

Objetivos: verificar o número e as causas de hospitalizações por quedas em idosos brasileiros, além dos gastos federais do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), no período de 2000 a 2018. Métodos: trata-se de um estudo ecológico, utilizando informações disponíveis na base de dados do Departamento de ...

Positive Psychology Intervention for Families of Hospitalized Children

Abstract Positive Psychology interventions may benefit families with hospitalized children. This study aimed to evaluate a pilot intervention in positive psychology for parents with hospitalized children with acute health conditions. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with thirty mothers with a mea...