title: [Adaptation of an instrument to measure daily hours of home nursing care].
abstract: The Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System Intermediate: TISS-Intermediate, was translated into Portuguese and adapted to establish the number of hours daily of home care. The adaptation process of the instrument, developed with the Delphi Technique, used 16 nurses, who work in home care service providers and helped in calculating the number of nursing care hours for patients at their home after a period of hospitalization. At the end of the study, a 104 item-instrument was obtained for future clinical validation. This instrument will help nurses to extend nursing care to patients in their homes after they are discharged from hospitals, especially in regard to their decision-making concerning patient assessment.
authors.affiliation: dalben@dalben.com.br
authors.forename: Luiza Watanabe
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Dal Ben
authors.forename: Regina Márcia Cardoso
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: de Sousa
mesh_terms: D006701:Home Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors