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Theoretical framework: Over the years there have been substantial changes in the amount of documentation in nursing as a result of information technologies that are part of the daily work of health professionals. Physicians are the greatest consumers of the information collected, processed and documented by nurses, given the relevance of this information in the process of clinical decision-making. Objectives: To identify and describe the information collected, processed and documented by nurses that appears most relevant to the medical profession. Methodology: Qualitative and exploratory study using participant observation (98 hours) and interviews (3) with key informants, conducted in the hospital. Inductive content analysis of field notes and interviews. Results: The most relevant information for doctors depends on the context of the subject, action and professions and can be aggregated into three categories: «monitoring parameters»; «medications and therapeutic attitudes»; and «recurrent data». Conclusion: Strategies for data collection are capable of generating valid data for the identification of categories of information most relevant to physicians («monitoring parameters», «medications and therapeutic attitudes» and «recurrent data»). The information relevant for physicians is not influenced by the person who decides that the data are collected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A interação dos profissionais das áreas da saúde e de informação permitirá não só consolidar o processo de comunicação, mas também agilizar as várias etapas da geração de novos conhecimentos. Para isso, é necessário dominar a terminologia considerada básica para compreender o fluxo de comunicação e os termos essenciais ao acesso à informação, quer pelo processo manual e/ou automatizado. Os resultados alcançados em uma pesquisa realizada com uma comunidade da área de saúde permitiram a adoção de estratégias que iriam facilitar a preparação desses pesquisadores para participar das etapas posteriores de pesquisa mais abrangente, que está sendo efetuada para implantação de um "Centro de Informação e Documentação". Foram comparadas as respostas da comunidade da área da saúde com as de uma elite selecionada de uma comunidade da área tecnológica.The interaction between the professionals of the health and information fields will not only open up the possibility of consolidating the communication process, but also will lead to the spreding up of the various stages of the generation of further knowledge. With a view, to understanding the communication flux and the essential terms for access to information (either manual and/or automatized) it is necessary to dominate the basic terminology. The results achieved by a research project undertaken with researchers of the health field led to the adoption of strategies which should facilitate the preparation of these researchers for their participation in later stages of more comprehensive research with a view to the establishment of an Information and Documentation Center. The answers of this group were compared to those of the select elite of a community of the technological field.