Nursing Minimum Data Sets (NMDS) – eine Literaturübersicht bezüglich Zielsetzungen und Datenelementen

Abstract

What emerged was that no clear association is present between the objectives and the data elements of the minimum nursing care datasets that were studied.

A Proposal for an Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS)

“…In the first round of the Delphi survey, all 22 experts were interviewed in the form of a qualitative "expert interview" by Meuser & Nagel [13,14]. Based on our literature review [7] of available NMDS in other countries, a semi-structured interview guideline was developed, tested, and adapted. The guideline comprised the following elements: possible objectives of an Austrian NMDS, possible data elements of an Austrian NMDS, and possible analysis of these data elements.…”

“…Each interview transcript was analyzed line by line, with the aim of identifying data elements to be included in an NMDS, as seen by the interviewed expert. In a first step, this analysis was performed in a deductive way: data elements mentioned in the interviews were assigned to a list of predefined categories of possible NMDS data elements that had been identified before in a systematic literature review [7].…”

“…The international experiences with NMDS have demonstrated that by using NMDS, nursing data can be compared across clinical populations, settings, geographical area, and time [4,5]. NMDS support several purposes, such as: to describe the diversity of different populations for nursing care [5], to support clinical and managerial services and to inform policy [6], to describe the variability of nursing care practice, to support the distribution of funds, to support benchmarking of nursing quality indicators, to support human resources planning, to allow trend analyses regarding nursing care, and to support the quality assurance of nursing care [7] on an individual level or an institutional level [2].…”

“…Several countries have developed national NMDS -a detailed review is provided in [7]. In addition, the International Medical Informatics Association, Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA NI-SIG) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) are supporting a project to develop the international Nursing Minimum Data Set (i-NMDS).…”

“…Due to the lack of an Austrian NMDS, comparisons of nursing data to support the above-mentioned purposes on a national basis have not been possible until now. The nursing minimum data sets of other countries seem not easily transmittable to Austria because of the many differences in the healthcare systems as well as the legislation or the cultural applicability [7].…”