Publications by authors named "Daniel Espirito Santo da Silva"
Purpose: To identify the prevalence of the nursing diagnosis of compromised end-of-life syndrome in patients in end-of-life care.
Methods: This is a clinical validation based on a cross-sectional epidemiological clinical study conducted at the National Cancer Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The defining characteristics of a syndrome diagnosis were identified, defined as a "subset of nursing diagnoses," using sensitivity and specificity measures through the application of latent class statistical methods.
Objectives: to validate the nursing diagnosis "Terminality Syndrome" with experts.
Methods: a quantitative research of content validation type based on collective wisdom approach. An online semi-structured questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection, and Content Validity Index and Wilcoxon test were used for comparing possible differences.