Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul

Therapeutic inertia near the end of life in advanced cancer: a narrative review and framework

Advanced cancer requires repeated decisions about whether further cancer-directed treatment remains proportionate. This narrative review examines therapeutic inertia near the end of life, defined as treatment continuation or initiation by the treating team without explicit reasse...

Digital Innovation Ecosystems in Agriculture: A Systematic Review–Based Framework

Abstract The agriculture sector has witnessed a significant digital transformation in recent years. Large companies, governments, and entities have invested efforts to create and orchestrate innovation ecosystems in the field. Such ecosystems may not only stimulate productivity a...

Dental Flossing in Early Adolescence as a Predictor of Habit Maintenance Over Time

ABSTRACT Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of use of dental flossing and associated factors over time. Methodology This two‐wave longitudinal observational study was conducted using an online questionnaire, which included adolescents and young adul...

Agroecologia e a ética da inovação na agricultura

Capitalism makes impossible ethical conviviality among all living beings. Constituted by a global power pattern —Coloniality— that acts upon race, knowing, being, nature, the capitalist institutionality is hostile to ethics for it conflicts with practices —patriarchal, racial, et...

Adjunctive oral naltrexone for breakthrough craving in patients receiving extended-release injectable naltrexone for alcohol use disorder: Three cases

Craving is a subjective, poorly characterized phenomenon strongly associated with return to use in alcohol use disorder and remains difficult to manage. Extended-release naltrexone is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved, evidence-based treatment, yet some patients experi...