Section Policies

Editorial

Text of responsibility of the Editorial Committee of REUFPI or of invited professionals.

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Original Paper

Result of empirical research, experimental or conceptual nature, with rigid and clear method, unpublished results, in-depth discussion and interface with national and international scientific literature, which add values to the health area. Limited to 15 pages, including abstract, tables, pictures and references.

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Review Paper

Result of integrative review study, scope review, systematic review with or without meta-analysis or metasynthesis. The method must have been conducted through critical analysis of the results of primary, quantitative or qualitative studies. Its structure should contain: research question, criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies, sampling/search in the literature, information extracted from selected studies, evaluation of the quality of primary studies, interpretation and presentation of knowledge synthesis. Limited to 20 pages, including abstract, tables, pictures and references.

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Experience Report

Description of experiences related to teaching, extension, assistance, management or description of technological innovation products. Its extension is limited to 12 pages, including abstract, tables, pictures and references.

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Reflection Paper (Discussion Paper)

Theoretical and critical discussion on a relevant topic for Nursing and related areas. It has an opinionated and reflective character. It should analyze theoretical and/or practical points of view on the subject. Limited to 12 pages, including summary and references.

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Protocols Paper

Description of clinical trial planning, robust epidemiological studies, systematic review or scope review. Submission of protocol manuscripts is encouraged at an early stage of the study. If the data collection is complete, the manuscript will not be considered. The publication of study protocols allows researchers and funding agencies to keep up-to-date in their fields, providing exposure to research activities that would otherwise not be widely disseminated.  For construction, clinical trial protocols should follow spirit recommendations (Standard Protocol Items for Randomized Trials); systematic review protocols, PRISMA-P recommendations, and scope review protocols, PRISMA-ScR recommendations. The registration of protocols is mandatory, for Clinical Trials to observe the registration in REBEC or other repository of Clinical Trials. For systematic reviews to consider registering with the International prospective register of systematic reviews PROSPERO and for scope reviews, the authors are encouraged to register their protocol in the Open Science Framework – OSF. The registration number must be reported in the manuscript. Limited to 12 pages, including summary and references.

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Case study

Deals with a wide variety of evidence are documentary, artifacts, interviews and observations. Thus, a case study technique can employ single or multiple cases, considering a number of units of analysis.

Letter to the Editor

Intended to discuss articles recently published by the journal, expressing agreement or disagreement on the subject addressed, or report original research and significant scientific findings. Limited to two pages.

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