Is the ATIC terminology oriented to nursing phenomena?

Abstract

The main goal of this observational and descriptive study is to evaluate whether the diagnosis axis of a nursing interface terminology meets the content validity criterion of being nursing-phenomena oriented. Nursing diagnosis concepts were analyzed in terms of presence in the nursing literature, type of articles published and areas of disciplinary interest. The search strategy was conducted in three databases with limits in relation to period and languages. The final analysis included 287 nursing diagnosis concepts. The results showed that most of the concepts were identified in the scientific literature, with a homogeneous distribution of types of designs. Most of these concepts (87.7%) were studied from two or more areas of disciplinary interest. Validity studies on disciplinary controlled vocabularies may contribute to demonstrate the nursing influence on patients' outcomes.

Precisión y exhaustividad del registro de eventos adversos mediante una terminología de interfase

“…However, it is necessary that the concepts related to care are presented in an unequivocal manner. In the present investigation, it is evident that compared with international nursing diagnoses classifications, such as NANDA, questioned for the high levels of abstraction of their concepts (9,12) , the ATIC terminology offers nurses concepts with different levels of specificity that allow the problems, situations, or real or risk responses to be accurately reflected (14) . In this study, to communicate the PU and SSI events, the nurses used the ATIC diagnoses of "Pressure ulcer grade III", "Pressure ulcer grade IV", "Surgical wound", and "Contaminated surgical wound" that correspond to a more abstract conceptual equivalent, such as "Impairment of tissue integrity", in NANDA.…”

“…Of the different options of standardized nursing languages, ATIC presents the least amount of abstract concepts. ATIC (14) is "a nursing interface terminology, multiaxial and concept-oriented, based on the study of natural language that nurses use in their daily practice and revised for its theoretical refinement". ATIC has been subjected to qualitative validation and analysis of its metric properties (15)(16) .…”

Assessment of Standardized Care Plans for People with Chronic Diseases in Primary Care Settings

“…ATIC provides a concept-oriented, interface-controlled vocabulary for assessing patients' health, problems, circumstances, and nursing interventions. Derived from the natural language used by nurses, ATIC has become a reliable nursing terminology interface for crafting care standards [21][22][23].…”

Basic Nursing Care: Retrospective Evaluation of Communication and Psychosocial Interventions Documented by Nurses in the Acute Care Setting

“…Each concept also undergoes a verification process that includes concept decomposition according to international guidelines (International Organization for Standardization, ), concept mapping (defining equivalences to other vocabularies) and concept maturity analysis in terms of scientific production (Figure 2, available online). Appendix 1 (available online) includes a structured approach summarizing how ATIC was developed and tested and the main similarities and differences between ATIC and other nursing language systems (Juvé‐Udina, ; Juvé‐Udina, ; Juvé‐Udina, ).…”