Mensuração da gravidade de quadros clínicos resultantes de cirurgias: estimação de magnitudes versus estimação de categorias

The gravity of clinical illnesses resultant of surgeries was scaled by the psychophysics methods of magnitude and categories estimations by 20 physicians and 20 nurses. Results showed: 1- the continuum of gravity of clinical illnesses resultant of surgeries has quantitative or prosthetic characteris...

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Autores: Sousa, Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros, Giuntini, Patrícia Bodnar
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repositorio:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/1540
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.usp.br/rlae/article/view/1540
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:gravity
psychophysics
gravedad
psicofísica
gravidade
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Resumo:The gravity of clinical illnesses resultant of surgeries was scaled by the psychophysics methods of magnitude and categories estimations by 20 physicians and 20 nurses. Results showed: 1- the continuum of gravity of clinical illnesses resultant of surgeries has quantitative or prosthetic characteristics and non-qualitative or metathetic characteristics. 2- the variability of the estimations of magnitudes is a linear function of the magnitude of the estimations according to Ekman's law.