Conceptual and operational definition of the components of the nursing diagnosis hypothermia (00006) in the perioperative period.

Objective: to construct the conceptual and operational definitions of the defining and conceptual characteristics of the related factors of the nursing diagnosis (ND) hypothermia (00006) of NANDA-I, 2015-2017, in adult patients in the perioperative period.

Method: an integrative literature review in the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Cochrane Library, The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and in Latin & American Literature in Health Sciences databases.

Results: 2,041 articles were found, 95 selected for reading in full and 24 used to construct such definitions.