title: Development of the Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS-AT): the third Delphi Round, a quantitative online survey.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) aims at systematically describing nursing care in terms of patient problems, nursing activities, and patient outcomes. In an earlier Delphi study, 56 data elements were proposed to be included in an Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS-AT).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To identify the most important data elements of this list, and to identify appropriate coding systems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Online Delphi-based survey with 88 experts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  43 data elements were rated as relevant for an NMDS-AT (strong agreement of more than half of the experts): nine data elements concerning the institution, patient demographics, and medical condition; 18 data elements concerning patient problems by using nursing diagnosis; seven data elements concerning nursing outcomes, and nine data elements concerning nursing interventions. As classification systems, national classification systems were proposed besides ICNP, NNN, and nursing-sensitive indicators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The resulting proposal for an NMDS-AT will now be tested with routine data.
authors.affiliation: Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Management / Pflege, Austria.
authors.forename: Renate
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ranegger
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
authors.forename: Werner O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Hackl
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
authors.forename: Elske
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ammenwerth
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards*; D066264:Datasets as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*; D009862:Online Systems; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled