Towards implementing SNOMED CT in nursing practice: A scoping review.

Background: Currently, it is rare for nursing data to be available in data repositories due to the quality of nursing data collected in clinical practice. To improve the quality of nursing data, the American Nurses Association recommends the use of Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) for coding nursing problems, interventions, and observations in electronic health records.

Objective: To determine "what is known about the use of SNOMED terminology (Pre-SNOMED CT and SNOMED CT) in nursing".