The intervention of surveillance across classification systems.
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.
Schoneman
Doris
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Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. doris.schoenman@marquette.edu
D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000145:classification*; D009737:Nursing Records; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled