TY - JOUR
T1 - The Nursing Minimum Data Set, standardized language, and health care quality
AU - Dslaney, Connie
AU - Moorhead, Sue
PY - 1995/10
Y1 - 1995/10
N2 - Providers and consumers of health care have been attempting to define quality for the past several decades. The article describes one of nursing’s contributions to the multidlsciplinary health care quality revolution: Its ability to provide a more complete and holistic picture of the consumer (patients/clients). Nursings focus on responses to health care problems, not just illness events in Isolation, provides insight into causes and effective management strategies for health problems. The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) documents patient/client responses, interventions, patient-sensitive outcomes, and resource consumption. By implementing the NMDS, nursing collaborates with other health care professionals to identify the needs of patient populations as well as the needs of individual patients. The article examines the relationship of the NMDS to other health care databases used in quality measurement, describes the integral role of standardized language in implementing the NMDS. provides examples of NMDS data analyses to address specific aspects of quality measurement, and outlines a methodology for using nonstandardized data.
AB - Providers and consumers of health care have been attempting to define quality for the past several decades. The article describes one of nursing’s contributions to the multidlsciplinary health care quality revolution: Its ability to provide a more complete and holistic picture of the consumer (patients/clients). Nursings focus on responses to health care problems, not just illness events in Isolation, provides insight into causes and effective management strategies for health problems. The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) documents patient/client responses, interventions, patient-sensitive outcomes, and resource consumption. By implementing the NMDS, nursing collaborates with other health care professionals to identify the needs of patient populations as well as the needs of individual patients. The article examines the relationship of the NMDS to other health care databases used in quality measurement, describes the integral role of standardized language in implementing the NMDS. provides examples of NMDS data analyses to address specific aspects of quality measurement, and outlines a methodology for using nonstandardized data.
KW - Classification
KW - North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
KW - Nursing Intervention Classification
KW - Nursing Minimum Data Set
KW - Nursing Outcome Classification
KW - Omaha System
KW - Standardized language
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U2 - 10.1097/00001786-199510010-00005
DO - 10.1097/00001786-199510010-00005
M3 - Article
C2 - 7579544
AN - SCOPUS:0029391571
SN - 1057-3631
VL - 10
SP - 16
EP - 30
JO - Journal of Nursing Care Quality
JF - Journal of Nursing Care Quality
IS - 1
ER -