Introduction: Despite the fact that the fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) is commonly used in the initial evaluation and distinction of benign and malignant lesions of thyroid nodules, it may yield variable results, inasmuch as it is contingent on the pathologist's analysis and expertise in collecting appropriate samples. Objective: To check the diagnostic accuracy between FNA and pathological examination of thyroid nodules, both performed in a diagnostic pathology service. Methods: Retrospective study carried out in a diagnostic pathology service in Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil. All patients who underwent FNA and pathological examination in the period from January 1 st 2005 to December 31 2010 were included in this study. Results: 1,172 FNA were conducted during this period and 265 patients underwent both FNA and pathological examination. Most patients were female (85%), with mean age 47.75 years (standard deviation [SD] = 14.93 years). Cytopathological examinations yielded the following results: benignity (43.77 %), suspected malignancy (23.77%), follicular neoplasm (5.28%), atypical follicular lesion of undetermined significance (1.51%) and unsatisfactory sample (1.51%). In the pathological examination, the most predominant diagnoses were colloid goiter (38.87%), follicular adenoma (22.64%) and classic papillary carcinoma (18.87%). In satisfactory samples (n = 261), the following results were obtained: diagnostic accuracy (89.66%), sensitivity (82.14%), specificity (93.22%), negative predictive value (91.67%) and positive predictive value (75.19%). Conclusion: We concluded that FNA provides a good predictive value for benign thyroid, constituting a reliable and effective tool for diagnosis and surgical indication.
Objective: to identify absenteeism of nursing technicians in an Intensive Care Unit and to verify the association between absenteeism and workload. Method: cross-sectional retrospective study of documentary source and quantitative approach. It was performed in an adult intensive care unit with 4,920 measurements from the Nursing Activities Score in 2017, in order to extract the nursing workload, and control absenteeism, considering the absences recorded in the management register of the department. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed, dividing the intensive care unit into two groups (ICU I and ICU II), according to team shifts. Results: in the period analyzed, 461 absences were observed, with a higher proportion in ICU II (5.35%, p-value=0.00). This group also had the highest Nursing Activities Score (99.76) average. However, workload and absenteeism showed no statistically significant correlation in the analyzed groups (ICU I, r=0.02 and ICU II, r=0.06). Conclusion: there was no statistically significant association between absenteeism and workload of nursing technicians in the Intensive Care Unit. However, the team with the highest workload was the most absent.
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