title: Software application that evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of nursing students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Apply the educational software Fuzzy Kitten with undergraduate Brazilian nursing students.
  
  
  METHODS
  This software, based on fuzzy logic, generates performance scores that evaluate the ability to identify defining characteristics/risk factors present in clinical cases, relate them with nursing diagnoses, and determine the diagnoses freely or using a decision support model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were differences in student performance compared to the year of the course. The time to perform the activity did not present a significant relation to the performance. The students' scores in the diagnoses indicated by the model was superior (p= .01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The software was able to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The software enables an objective evaluation of diagnostic accuracy.
authors.affiliation: University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. rodrigojensen@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Paulo Sérgio Panse
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.forename: Neli Regina Siqueira
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: Maria Helena Baena de Moraes
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lopes
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software; D013338:Students, Nursing