Trends in Brazilian thesis and dissertations on the transition of care in health services
International Journal of Development Research
Trends in Brazilian thesis and dissertations on the transition of care in health services
Received 22nd October, 2019; Received in revised form 24th November, 2019; Accepted 01st December, 2019; Published online 31st January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Danieli Bandeira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study aimed to identify trends in scientific production and contributions of scientific knowledge produced in Brazilian theses and dissertations about the transition of care in health services. This is a study of thesis and dissertation trends from a narrative review of descriptive literature, carried out through a systematic search in the Thesis and Dissertation Bank of the Higher Education Personal Improvement Coordination. After reading the titles and abstracts of the productions, four productions that made up the corpus of this review. From reading the abstracts of the productions, two thematic categories emerged: “Adoption of protocols for the care transition” and “The assessment of the care transition through Care Transition Measure (CTM)”. Among the evidenced trends, we highlight the adoption of protocols that facilitate the care transition, the use of the MTC as an instrument to evaluate the care transition and the role of nurses in the transition actions. Although the study highlights the shortage of Brazilian productions on the subject as a shortcoming, it made it possible to highlight the important role of the care transition assessment in the management and planning of health services.
