Ricardo Picoito

Ricardo Picoito is a Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), focusing on nursing and health professions with emphasis on critical care settings. His work addresses pressure injury prevention, risk assessment methodologies, and healthcare system challenges in intensive care units.

His academic background includes a Bachelor's degree and a 2018 Master's thesis titled A enfermagem na prevenção e controlo das infeções hospitalares (Nursing in the prevention and control of hospital infections), supervised by P. C. P. S. V. Ribeiro.

Ricardo's research centers on Critical Care Nursing and Wound Care, particularly pressure injury prevention in ICU settings. He specializes in evidence synthesis through scoping/systematic reviews and develops methodological frameworks for scale validation like the EVARUCI tool. His work bridges clinical practice and health services research to improve patient safety and care coordination.

Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals a dominant focus on pressure injury risk assessment in critical care (80% of output), primarily using scoping reviews to synthesize evidence. Secondary themes include patient referral systems in integrated care networks (15%) and cultural adaptation of assessment tools (5%), demonstrating his evolving contribution to healthcare quality improvement.

Ricardo has not received any documented scientific awards or fellowships based on available information.

As a recently graduated Master's researcher, he has not yet undertaken student supervision. No grant funding sources are mentioned in his publication record, though his work on national care networks suggests potential institutional or public health collaborations.

He operates within the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), with research activities concentrated in intensive care units across healthcare networks. His fingerprint shows strong connections to nursing practice improvement teams and pressure injury prevention task forces, though specific laboratory affiliations are not detailed.