The Nursing Minimum Data Set: a major priority for public health nursing but not a panacea.

Designing a Minimum Data Set for Major Thalassemia Patients: Towards Electronic Personal Health Record

Introduction: In advanced medicine, large amounts of data are produced. However, there is always a gap between their collection and their understanding and interpretation. Thus, the minimum data sets are prepared. Thalassemia major is a chronic genetic blood disorder and the most common genetic disorder in the world. So, the aim of this study was to determine the data set for personal health re...

Using nursing interventions classification as a framework to revise the Belgian nursing minimum data set.

PURPOSE To develop the revised Belgian nursing minimum data set (B-NMDS). METHODS The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC, 2nd edition) was used as a framework. Six expert nurse panels (cardiology, oncology, intensive care, pediatrics, geriatrics, chronic care) were consulted. Seventy-nine panelists completed standardized e-mail questionnaires and discussed results in face-to-face meeti...

A minimum data set for chronic venous disease

Knowledge discovery in nursing minimum data set using data mining.

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to apply data mining tool to nursing specific knowledge discovery process and to identify the utilization of data mining skill for clinical decision making. METHODS Data mining based on rough set model was conducted on a large clinical data set containing NMDS elements. Randomized 1,000 patient data were selected from year 1998 database which had at lea...

Minimum data set for electronic health card of schizophrenia

Purpose: Having a clinical information system is a good solution for monitoring medical problems. This system is designed to improve the speed and accuracy of data management. The goal is to replace medical records with a clinical information system to support storing, processing and distributing data in all the sections of a healthcare center. The purpose of this research was to determine ...