title: Nursing clinical documentation data retrieval for hospitalized older adults with heart failure: part 2.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study aims to discuss the implications for retrieval of nursing data and building a multiorganizational data warehouse.
  
  
  METHODS
  The method used was a descriptive comparative multisite study of documented care for 302 older adults with heart failure. Unit and patient level variables were retrieved.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data regarding the most identified variables were retrievable electronically. Important linkages among nursing data elements were not present.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data were retrievable and the building of a data warehouse was possible and lessons were learned.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When clinical information systems (CISs) are developed, developers and nurses must discuss how standardized data will be entered to ensure retrieval and usefulness in evaluating nursing care. For nursing effectiveness research, CISs must also provide linkages among nursing diagnoses and specific interventions, and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. bhead@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Head
authors.forename: Cindy A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Scherb
authors.forename: Meridean L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Maas
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Swanson
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moorhead
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: Deborah Marks
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Conley
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kozel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007297:Inpatients; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D009737:Nursing Records