Editorial

Abstract

I n this year the scientific journal, Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, completes 25 years of uninterrupted circulation. Its launch, in 1988, is considered by the Paulista School of Nursing as a landmark for the dissemination of knowledge, in a period marked by the rise of graduate degree studies, in the area of nursing. Its trajectory, in the steps of its childhood and adolescence, was affected by serious infrastructural barriers that were solved by the persistent and resilient work of the scientific and associate editors responsible for its circulation in the national scenario of scientific journals. Upon entering its adulthood, it became stronger due to the work undertaken continuously over a few years by its scientific editors, attentive to changes occurring in the processes of knowledge production and the vehicles of dissemination to meet the standardized quality requirements in the international and national environments. Technical and associate editors, ad hoc consultants, reviewers and editorial office staff collaborated in this venture. At this time, Acta is a scientific journal on the rise, given the current quality criteria: open access beginning in 2012, availability of an application for the iPad in Portuguese and English languages (free download), support from the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development; an editorial board composed of researchers from Brazil and abroad; indexing in national and international databases, emphasizing the Web of Science/ISI, SCOPUS, CUIDEN, CINAHL, SciELO and LILACS; classification in stratum A2 of the QUALIS/CAPES index, used in the evaluation of the graduate degree studies; submission and monitoring of its works in the Thomson Reuters ScholarOne platform; priority selection of original works that add value to the areas of nursing and health care; and, increasing rates of citation of articles (SJR) beginning in 2006. Thus, in the view of those who actively participated in the life of Acta, I present compliments to the Paulista School of Nursing on the progress made, by this journal, in its completing 25 years of existence.

Factors associated to potential drug interactions in one Intensive Care Unit: a cross-sectional study

“…According to a review of the literature published in 2013, the majority of patients hospitalized in intensive care units are male and elderly. 6,18 However, in a survey conducted in two Brazilian hospitals, the average age was 56.1 and the median age was 57 years. 19 On the other hand, in a research carried out in a Brazilian tertiary care hospital, the sample (n = 573) presented 73% patients with age equal to or above 60 years.…”

“…In a study comparing PDI data between 24 and 120 hours of admission to the intensive care, the average number of PDIs per patient increased from 2.9 (24 hours) to 3.3 (120 hours). 6 It should be noted that the drugs strongly associated with PDI were also extensively prescribed drugs, therefore they were present in many of the PDIs; however, amiodarone was not included in this factor, since it was prescribed only to nine patients.…”

“…Fentanyl was also the largest interacting agent found in 36 of 54 DI pairs. 6,19 It is believed that the presence of PDIs with these HAMs is due, among other factors, to their great use in intensive care. This factor, coupled with the aggravating factors of the sector and the complexity of the clientele, may increase the occurrence of errors and PDIs.…”

“…In a multicenter study, it was observed that in the first 24 hours of hospitalization in Intensive Care Units, 70.6% of the patients presented at least one drug interaction. The total number of drug interactions was 2,299, with 350 types of drug 6 Therefore, DIs can cause damage and be classified as adverse drug events (ADE). According to the Health Surveillance Notification System (NOTIVISA -"Sistema de Notificações em Vigilância Sanitária" in Portuguese language) of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA -"Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária" in Portuguese language), a total of 103,887 adverse events were registered in Brazil between 2006 and 2013, of which 38,730 were related to drugs.…”

Os desafios e resultados de 29 anos de publicação da Acta Paulista de Enfermagem

“…classification in the QUALIS/ CAPES index (stratum A2), which is used to evaluate the academic graduate programs. (5) As the editor-in-chief of APE, I am privileged to make a historical clip of the Editorials of my predecessors. Some previous decisions allowed APE, a technical-scientific electronic publication of Escola Paulista de Enfermagem (EPE, UNIFESP), to come to be a rising scientific journal, with multimedia interface.…”