Healthcare can't stop evolving: innovation as the catalyst for unleashing the managerial potential of value-based healthcare by stimulating intangible assets and enhancing organizational resilience.

Background: With increasing healthcare service utilization and the introduction of costly therapies, healthcare organizations are pressured to deliver cost-effective services within constrained budgets. Rising costs and the need for efficient healthcare delivery are major concerns for governments, insurers, and health plans.

Objectives: It aims to understand the impact of these intangible assets on creating value and organizational resilience in healthcare, informing better practices and strategies for VBHC implementation.

Translational insights into the hormetic potential of carbon dioxide: from physiological mechanisms to innovative adjunct therapeutic potential for cancer.

Background: Carbon dioxide (CO), traditionally viewed as a mere byproduct of cellular respiration, plays a multifaceted role in human physiology beyond simple elimination through respiration. CO may regulate the tumor microenvironment by significantly affecting the release of oxygen (O) to tissues through the Bohr effect and by modulating blood pH and vasodilation. Previous studies suggest hypercapnia (elevated CO levels) might trigger optimized cellular mechanisms with potential therapeutic benefits.

Assessment and validation of the pet-owner relationship scale for Brazil.

Introduction: This study aimed to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the cat-owner/dog-owner relationship scales. The method involved several stages: conceptual, item, semantic, operational, measurement, and functional equivalence. Procedures included translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, consensus on the English versions, external evaluation by the original authors, expert committee evaluation, and pre-tests.

The consequences of job crafting and engagement in the relationship between passion for work and individual performance of Portuguese workers.

Introduction: This study sought to relate the two types of work passion, harmonious passion and obsessive passion, to the organizational consequences of engagement, job crafting, and perceived individual job performance. This study was based on the Employee Work Passion Appraisal model and conducted to evaluate possible statistical associations of the dualistic approach of passion used as an antecedent of positive and negative organizational outcomes (engagement, job crafting, and perceived individual job performance).

Methods: The data collection and analysis for this study were accomplished by a transversal and quantitative study design.

Auriculotherapy for reducing chronic spinal pain in health workers: a clinical trial.

Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of auriculotherapy in reducing chronic musculoskeletal pain in the spine of health workers.

Method: a randomized, triple-blind clinical trial conducted with health workers diagnosed with chronic spinal pain. Eight sessions of auriculotherapy with seeds were applied, two per week.

Using AutoCAD software to measure venous leg ulcers: a reproducibility assessment study.

Objective: To assess the reproducibility of using AutoCAD software to measure the area of venous leg ulcers (VLUs).

Method: Data from patients with VLUs were collected between March and July 2015, using data collection forms and photographing the different ulcers. A researcher and five nurses collected the data.

Longitudinality in Primary Health Care: a comparison between care models.

Objective: to evaluate the attribute longitudinality in different models of assistance in Primary Health Care and observe its association with demographic, socioeconomic and health care characteristics.

Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out in 2015 with 1076 adult users of primary care services in the 32 cities of the 4th Regional Health Care Core of Rio Grande do Sul State. The Primary Care Assessment Tool was used with definition of low (<6.

Measurement of the area of venous ulcers using two software programs.

Objective: to compare the measurement area of venous ulcers using AutoCAD(r) and Image Tool software.

Method: this was an assessment of reproducibility tests conducted in a angiology clinic of a university hospital. Data were collected from 21 patients with venous ulcers, in the period from March to July of 2015, using a collection form and photograph of wounds.

Health care for children and adolescents with HIV: a comparison of services.

Objective: compare the quality of different types of health care for children and adolescents with HIV, in the experience of family members and caregivers.

Method: a cross-sectional study was conducted with 71 family members and caregivers, using the children's version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool-Brazil). The Mann-Whitney or Student's t-test and Pearson's chi-square or Fisher's exact test were used for the analysis.

Levels of career commitment and career entrenchment of nurses from public and private hospitals.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of the types of relations to career - commitment and entrenchment - of nurses from public and private hospitals.

Methods: Field survey with a quantitative approach. A total of 237 nurses participated in the survey through a questionnaire with 43 questions about sociodemographic data, occupation, and relation to career.

[Sociodemographic and academic profile of nursing students from four Brazilian institutions].

This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and academic characteristics of nursing students from four Brazilian Educational Institutions. It is a prospective cross-sectional study. The data were collected between April 2011 and March 2012, through a survey form with questions about sociodemographic and academic characteristics of the students.

[Portuguese validation of the symptom inventory of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center].

Objective: To analyze the reliability and validity of the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the instrument for symptom assessment, titled MD Anderson Symptom Inventory - core.

Method: A cross-sectional study with 268 cancer patients in outpatient treatment, in the municipality of Ijuí, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Results: The Cronbach's alpha for the MDASI general, symptoms and interferences was respectively (0.

Hardy personality and burnout syndrome among nursing students in three Brazilian universities-an analytic study.

Background: Nursing students may exhibit the characteristics of resistance to stress, such as hardiness, which can reduce the risk of burnout. However, we found only one published study about these phenomena among nursing students. Thus, we investigated the association between hardiness and burnout in such students.

Stress and burnout among multidisciplinary residents.

Objective: To identify associations between high-stress and burnout syndrome in multidisciplinary residents from a federal university in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Method: This is an analytical, cross-sectional and quantitative study. A socio-demographic questionnaire, the Work Stress Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Health Services Survey (MBI-HSS) were applied to 37 residents between April and June 2011.

Psychosocial stress and minor psychiatric disorders among agentes socioeducadores.

Objective: to ascertain the association between psychosocial stress and the occurrence of Minor Psychiatric Disorders in agentes socioeducadores.

Method: a cross-sectional study with 381 agentes socioeducadores from the Centros de Atendimento Socioeducativo in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2011. Brazilian versions of the social demand-control-support at work scale were used, and of the Self Reporting Questionnaire-20.

Reliability of recognition thresholds of sentences in quiet and in noise.

Unlabelled: A larger number of research studies has been performed with different people and objectives and have shown that the sentence recognition test in noise is the best instrument to evaluate individuals' daily communication. However, we believe these tests are not applied so frequently because they require a lot of research to establish the parameters and variables related to their application and interpretation of the results.

Aim: To check the reliability of the recognition threshold of the sentences in quiet and in noise for a group of young normal listeners.