title: Synthesis of methods, rules, and issues of standardizing nursing intervention language mapping.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nursing language mapping.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To synthesize the methods, rules and issues described in two studies that mapped nonstandardized nursing orders/interventions into the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC).
  
  
  METHODS
  The methods and results of studies conducted by Moorhead & Delaney and Coenen et al.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results indicate that the NIC is an effective classification of mapping nursing orders/interventions to support across-site comparisons of nursing treatments. A set of decision rules to support mapping of interventions to the NIC is outlined.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delaney
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moorhead
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled