NI2012 Classification of Reasons for Hospital Readmission.

Hospital readmission is a focus of efforts to improve quality and reduce cost in our healthcare system. Use of a standard readmission classification in a clinical information system would facilitate examination and analysis of reasons for hospital readmission and provide direction for targeting interventions. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to examine coverage of reasons for readmission in three existing classification schemes compared with a "gold standard" conceptual framework.

A dynamic classification approach for nursing.

Nursing has a long tradition of classification, stretching back at least 150 years. The introduction of computers into health care towards the end of the 20(th) Century helped to focus efforts, culminating in the development of a range of standardized classifications. Many of these classifications are still in use today and, while content is periodically updated, the underlying classification structures remain relatively static.

Mapping nursing concepts to ontologies for evidence-based nursing.

In this paper we describe a project to map natural language expressions of nursing-related concepts to standard ontologies in support of an evidence-based nursing initiative. Natural language concept expressions are identified from syntheses of nursing knowledge and mapped to ICNP and SNOMED-CT.