Reconceptualization of the nursing diagnosis decreased cardiac output.
OBJECTIVE
The parameters of the diagnoses decreased cardiac output.


OBJECTIVE
To propose an alternative conceptual structure for cardiac output that links conceptual parameters with clinical and hemodynamic data.


METHODS
Past discussions and research investigations.


CONCLUSIONS
Careful analysis illustrates several diagnoses are contained within cardiac output at differing levels of abstraction. Testing of the model, including linking diagnoses with nursing interventions and outcomes, is suggested.
Dougherty
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Veterans Administration Puget Sound Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results