The object of this study is the development of therapeutic projects by the team working in a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS III). It takes into consideration the creation and expansion process of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) and Psychiatric Reform. In this context, workers are challenged to develop care through an individual therapeutic project that considers the true needs and life...

Challenges for the Implementation of the First Large-Scale Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program in Brazil: The PROVAR Study Experience Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos,1 Gabriel Assis Lopes do Carmo,1 Andrea Zawacki Beaton,2 Tainá Vitti Lourenço,1 Adriana Costa Diamantino,1 Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes,1 Craig Sable,2 Bruno Ramos Nascimento1 Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de ...

The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their goal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers con...

The current study assessed a comprehensive range of executive functions (EFs) in children with poor motor skills, comparing profiles of children with a diagnosis of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and those identified with motor difficulties (MD). Children in both groups performed more poorly than typically developing controls on nonverbal measures of working memory, inhibition, plann...

Developing a large-scale institutional DSS designed to serve multiple managers in different business functions can be a more challenging task than that of developing the much more common one-user, one-function DSS that have evolved over the past few years. In this article we review some of the evidence suggesting that extra effort and rigor in the early planning and analysis stage of large-scal...

BACKGROUND Concerns about hospital medication safety mount as the pace of new drug releases accelerates. METHODS We performed a randomized study at 2 hospitals (A and B) to examine whether the medication administration error rate could be decreased by having "dedicated" nurses focus exclusively on administering drugs. "Medication nurses," after receiving a brief review course on safe medicati...

By increasing the health promotion actions in the Family Health Strategy it is possible to contribute to implement comprehensive care. Nevertheless, technologies gap still hinder the process of training the professionals to analyze the health potentials of the population. The objective of this study is to synthesize the contributions of the WHOQOL-bref in training professionals regarding the he...