Pesquisa translacional: qual a importância para a prática da enfermagem?

Abstract

In recent decades, the initiatives to develop individual, collaborative, or multicentric nursing research have multiplied throughout the world. The objective of such initiative has been to improve the quality of nursing care given, offering greater security to patients and influencing more effective health care policies. Research based on evidence, clinical research, systematic literature reviews, convergentcare research, phenomenological studies, and social representations all share the same objective: to respond to professional practice questions. However, despite all the knowledge such efforts have produced, there is a vacuum among the studies and the use of the results from research carried out in public or hospital health care services. Translational research has arisen in an attempt to fill in the vacuum and approximate the researcher to fields of practice. 1 While the term is relatively new, the notion of "translating (or transferring) research results" is not, as it has been discussed since the 1970s and 80s in the United States and Brazil in National Nursing Research Seminars. One can highlight that as early as 1984 a study about "how to incorporate nursing research results to professional practice" 2 was proposed. The first publication on the subject under the classification of translational research is seen in an editorial of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), in 2002, when "(…) the need to translate new knowledge, mechanisms, and techniques generated towards advancing basic research in order to offer new possibilities of preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease" 3:10 is declared to be essential to improving human health. As of this publication, the remaining areas of health sciences, including nursing, have begun to more accurately question their forms manners of conducting such "translation" into care practices. In 2005, The Translational Research Working Group (TRWG), associated with the National Cancer Institute in the USA, was created with the objective of offering incentive and financing translational research, in this specific area. The University of Washington created the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) in 2007 in order to strengthen genetic medicine. Two relevant periodicals were also created in 2009,

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“…care and safety of the patient. [10][11] The author considers it as a self-directed lifelong learning process in which patient care creates the need for clinically important information on diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and other clinical and health issues. 12 * Gray literature (gray literature), according to the Cochrane Center, is understood as literature that is not formally published in sources such as books or periodicals.…”

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