Proposal for an essential nursing data set to evaluate the health in home care elderly persons.
This paper presents a proposal for a set of computerized data to construct an instrument in initial evaluations of the overall state of health elderly persons. The objective is to establish a common system of language and data-sharing, and to make the data collected available. This is expected to enable better planning and promotion of the quality of the assistance provided to this population.
de Cássia Ribeiro
Rita
R
Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. ritacafe@hotmail.com
de Fátima Marin
Heimar
H
D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006304:Health Status; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans