Objective: To create an interoperable set of nursing diagnoses for use in the patient problem list in the EHR to support interoperability.
Design: Queries for nursing diagnostic concepts were executed against the UMLS Metathesaurus to retrieve all nursing diagnoses across four nursing terminologies where the concept was also represented in SNOMED CT. A candidate data set was retrieved and included the nursing diagnoses and corresponding SNOMED CT concepts from the UMLS Metathesaurus.