Hospital discharge planning in care transition of patients with chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Objective: to analyze care transition in hospital discharge planning for patients with chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Method: a qualitative study, based on the Care Transitions Intervention theoretical model, with four pillars of intervention, to ensure a safe transition. Twelve professionals participated in a public hospital in the countryside of São Paulo.

Construction and validation of a matrix for normative evaluation of the integrated health system of the borders.

Objective: to build and validate a matrix for normative evaluation of the Integrated Health System of Borders.

Method: a methodological study, composed by the construction of an evaluation matrix elaborated in three stages: elaboration of the logical model, containing the triad of structure, process and result; definition of evaluative questions and appearance and content validation of the matrix. Appearance and content validation were performed simultaneously by seven judges.

Drug-Related Problems in the transitional care of the elderly from hospital to home.

Objective: To identify the knowledge produced on Medication-Related Problems in the transitional care of the elderly from hospital to home.

Method: Integrative review of the literature data, organized in six stages: guiding question; establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria; extraction of data; analyze; interpretation of results; and presentation of the review. Articles were considered among 2002 and 2017, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE, CINAHL and EMBASE.

[Phenomenological study about the nurse's home care for families of terminally ill patients].

The present study is a qualitative and phenomenological research aimed to understand the phenomenon Nurses working in the FHP (Family Health Program) and home care provided to the family living in a home where terminality of one of its members is being experienced. The study was carried out with healthcare providers who work in the Southeastern Region of the city of Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil. Existential phenomenology was used as the theoretical background.