[Organ donation and transplantation: Brazilian nursing publications].
The objectives of this bibliographic study were to identify and to characterize nursing scientific productions of organ donation and transplantation since 1997 to 2007. The LILACS, MEDLINE, BDENF, PERIENF AND DEDALUS databases were searched using the following keywords: "nursing and transplantation" and "nursing and donation", identifying 30 articles. The results had shown that the most of publications from the southeast region; the majority of approaching was qualitative; nurses were the main authors and the principal subjects were renal and hepatic transplantation. It was concluded that it is necessary more Brazilian nursing publications of organ donation and transplantation.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Enfermagem, São Paulo, SP.
Emilia Aparecida
EA
Cicolo
Bartira de Aguiar
Bde A
Roza
Janine
J
Schirmer
D015706:Bibliometrics; D001938:Brazil; D009729:Nursing; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement