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As we bring to the public the first issue of volume six of Trabalho, educação e saúde, we are pleased to mention that, in January, this periodical was selected to be indexed in one more database, namely, LILACS-Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences. This is favorable in various ways, such as increasing the periodical's circulation, further ensuring our international insertion in the academic publishing scenario. Following the example of the great majority of periodicals, our political and social function is to divulge scientific knowledge, constituting a practice of reflection on science that aims to contribute to the education of workers in general and health workers in particular. As was stated in previous numbers, the télos of this periodical's conception is "to prevent thought from succumbing to the fetish of the closed totality, the alienated social life, the various forms that domination assumes in our time". The texts collected in this number share in this purpose, thus helping to build the diverse currents of critical thought. The essay Notes on inflections of the Critical Theory in technical training and education in health, by Isabel Brasil Pereira, relates the legacy of Critical Theory to the problem of education for the emancipation and training of health service workers, in the context of unequal and combined capitalism. Based on the work of Theodor Adorno, which addresses explicitly the difficulties of emancipation, the author reflects on the principle of "educate for the difficult task" in the training of health workersthrough a society marked by heteronomy-in counterpoint to a "semitraining" process promoted in the scope of the "administered society". Roberta Lobo's article, Technology and challenges of contemporary Brazilian education, considers the conceptual discussion on technology. From the standpoint of the relationship between education, culture and technology, the study focuses on the changes in the epistemological status of education in the 20 th and 21 st centuries. With the theoretical reference centered on the thinking of Herbert Marcuse, particularly his concepts of "critical rationality" and "technological rationality", the author analyzes the possibilities of education preparing young people to participate in the world of culture by exploring the historical and aesthetic imagination, in regard to audiovisual production. Nursing assistants and technicians in the Family Health: sociodemographic profile and qualification needs is the title of the article by Francisco Rosemiro G. Ximenes Neto et al. The authors carried out an exploratorydescriptive study about the nursing technicians who worked in the Family Health Strategy in some municipalities of the state of Ceará, from March to April of 2005, and their qualification needs. The article Suffering in teaching: the case of the public network teachers of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, by Maria Márcia Bicalho Noronha,

Reduction of hospital length of stay through the implementation of SAFER patient flow bundle and Red2Green days tool: a pre–post study

“…All patients discharged from the IMU wards from March to May 2018 and 2019 were categorised using the diagnosis-related group (DRG) Brazil Platform. 14 The DRG groups patients according to complexity and resource use, allowing outcome comparability among patients in the same DRG. Each DRG has a relative weight, and the DRG case mix is the sum of all patients' DRG relative weights divided by the number of patients.…”