A NIDSEC primer: Part 2--Setting the standards.
The Nursing Information and Data Set Evaluation Center (NIDSEC), established by the American Nurses Association (ANA), recently published the criteria by which it evaluates information systems that support nursing practice documentation. These criteria include nomenclature, clinical content, clinical data repository and general system characteristics. This article focuses on two of the four dimensions of nursing data sets and the systems that contain them: clinical data repository and general system characteristics.
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D000575:American Nurses' Association; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards; D009729:Nursing; D009737:Nursing Records; D011364:Professional Practice; D014481:United States