title: The intervention of surveillance across classification systems.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the intervention of surveillance across nursing classification systems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published literature and book chapters.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Surveillance is a clearly established nursing intervention used in multiple practice settings and in response to many diagnoses. The literature and definitions are divided into surveillance of populations and surveillance of individuals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  General agreement exists on the process of surveillance, but not on whether there is a time element to surveillance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Research is needed on outcomes of surveillance and best practices established. The similarity in definitions of surveillance may allow comparison of outcomes when the diagnosis and practice setting are the same, regardless of the classification systems.
authors.affiliation: Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. doris.schoenman@marquette.edu
authors.forename: Doris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schoneman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000145:classification*; D009737:Nursing Records; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled