title: Reconceptualization of the nursing diagnosis decreased cardiac output.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Administration Puget Sound Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dougherty
mesh_terms: D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results