Nursing service data for research in patient care.
Nursing service records from the nontechnical medical care program, an Oklahoma statewide Medicaid long-term community care program, provided a unique data base to gather information for research purposes and program improvement. This article describes the process of developing a data collection (coding) form to extract a minimum data set and a method of training lay coders to use the form. Inherent problems associated with this process from the beginning to the end are also shared.
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Baccalaureate/Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing-UCT, Tulsa 74106-5218.
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Jacobson
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Holtzen
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D009737:Nursing Records; D009825:Oklahoma; D015203:Reproducibility of Results