title: Nursing classifications: Home Health Care Classification System (HHCC): an overview.
abstract: This paper provides an overview of the Home Health Care Classification (HHCC) System focusing on its two interrelated taxonomies: HHCC of Nursing Diagnoses and HHCC of Nursing Interventions both of which are classified by 20 Care Components. It highlights the major events that influenced its development, current status, and future uses. The two HHCC taxonomies and their 20 Care Components are used as a standardized framework to code, index, and classify home health clinical nursing practice. Further, they are used to document, electronically track, evaluate outcomes and analyze home health care over time, across settings, population groups, and geographic locations.
authors.affiliation: Adjunct Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. vsaba@worldnet.att.net
authors.forename: Virginia K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Saba
mesh_terms: D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000145:classification*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000145:classification*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification; D009626:Terminology as Topic