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The perioperative nursing data set (PNDS) is a structured vocabulary developed by AORN to help document perioperative nursing practices. The PNDS has been mapped to the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) reference terminology model to support the electronic exchange of nursing data. This study validates the concept mapping between the PNDS and SNOMED CT, supporting an equivalent meaning of concepts between the two terminology systems.

SNOMED CT can represent most (80%) of the ICNP version 1 concepts. However, improvements in the ICNP version 1 in terms of concept naming and definition, and the addition of missing concepts to SNOMED CT, would lead to a greater harmonization of the ICNP seven-axis model version 1 concepts with SNOMED CT.

ConnectionOrganized into six tracks that met the needs of participants, from the novice to the expert, the concurrent sessions addressed privacy, security, and communication of patient-centered records; continuity of the patient-centered record; implementation of patientcentered evidence-based care; facilitation of personal and family health management; data quality and accuracy in patient-centered records; and secondary use and reuse of data from patient-centered records.Plenary speakers included Roy L. Simpson, RN-C, FNAP, FAAN, vice president of nursing for Cerner Corporation; Clement J. McDonald, MD, director