Out-of-pocket payments in hospital bills: a challenge to management.

Objetive: To analyse out-of-pocket payments (OOP) by health insurance company in hospital bills.

Method: Cross-sectional study with quantitative approach. The information was obtained in the database of a health insurance company in the north of Paraná State and categorised into administrative and technical OOP.

Validation of instrument to assess software of patients' risk classification.

Objective: Validate the content of an instrument that assesses the quality of a software applied to the risk classification of patients.

Method: Methodological study, conducted in three stages: adaptation of the instrument, content validation through Delphi technique and pre-test. The results were analyzed through Content Validity Index, Overall Content Validity Index and Inter-rater Reliability.

Factors associated with foot ulceration of people with diabetes mellitus living in rural areas.

Objective To analyze the factors associated with the risk of ulceration in the feet of people with diabetes mellitus living in rural areas. Methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 293 individuals with diabetes mellitus, aged 40 years or older, living in the south of Brazil, in 2014. We analyzed socioeconomic variables, clinical conditions and foot self-care.

The meaning of care management attributed by nursing faculty members from the viewpoint of complex thinking.

Objective: To understand the meaning of care management attributed by faculty members of a nursing course from the viewpoint of complex thinking.

Methods: Qualitative and comprehensive research with case studies, and individual interviews with 17 faculty members of a nursing course of a public university in southern Brazil. The data were subjected to comprehensive analysis based on the principle of complex thinking of Edgar Morin.

[Health status of nursing workers in functional retraining and readaptation].

Cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to assess the health status of nursing staff retrained due to illness of a public university hospital in northern Paraná, Brazil. Data of 34 workers were collected through the application of the Medical Outcomes Studies 36 items - Short Form (MOS SF-36). The results showed that physical problems were the reason for retraining in 91.