Qualis de produção técnica: desenvolvimento de métricas para manuais adheMar Monteiro PaCheCo Jr., CarLos José Lazzarini Mendes
INTRODUCTIONT he beginning of manuals and books may be considered as those found in art and rupestre rock art caves, cuneiform writing of the Sumerians at 3,000 BC, producing extensive literary work as poems, codes, laws, fables, myths and other narratives, "manualizing" the day by day.In a big time warp, in imperial Brazil, it can be highlighted the medical manuals done by Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz (1812-1881), reporting elements of folk lay people medicine, with academic, civilized and hygienic behavior 1 . There are few authors focused on the study of preparing manuals criteria, often being criticized for methodological rigor on the informations 2,3 . With regard to the sharing of information to patients, Coulter et al in 1999 highlighted important points that should be included in manuals, such as understanding what is wrong, understand prognosis, self-care, prevention of complications, identification of better services and information, among others, motivating the excellence in manual production and preparation 4 .
MANUAL DEVELOPMENTBy manual is understand any set of rules, procedures, functions, activities, instructions and guidelines, substantial or essential, making it possible to define and guide the activities to be developed, replicating, spreading and solidifying knowledge and experience.The preparation of a manual should contain: 1) methodological definition; 2) definition of the premises; 3) definition of manual model; 4) choice of procedures, standards and evidence-based guidelines or solid experiences; 5) transfer of knowledge to those involved; and 6) monitoring the applicability and validation.Can be added to it some advantages, which are: 1) important and constant source of information, since updated and reissued; 2) process facilitation in carrying out policies, procedures and functions; assistance in setting criteria and standards; standardizing the basic technique of the process terminology; 3) possibility of appropriateness, consistency and continuity in the rules and procedures; 4) reduction of contradictions and misunderstandings between sectors and multidisciplinary teams facilitating conducts; 5) enable the training of post-graduates; 6) represents an effective instrument for consultation, guidance and training of the institution; 7) prevents improvisations that usually arise in various forms in the institutions; 8) permits permanent revision, updates and objective evaluation, using instructions, standards, technical notes, eg all normative acts adopted by the institution; and 9) permits visibility and standardization of functions, sub-functions and involved activities.Manual can offer as disadvantages: 1) when not updated properly and permanently, quickly lose its value; 2) is generally inflexible; and 3) if too synthetic become less useful and, on the other hand, if very detailed has the risk of obsolescence in any minor changes.It should considered the ...