Exploring common data model coverage of nursing flowsheet data: a pilot study using SNOMED CT and LOINC mapping
Robin Austin, Malin Britt Lalich, Katy Stewart, Jonna Zarbano, Matthew Byrne, Melissa D. Pinto, Elizabeth E. Umberfield · 2025
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Robin Austin and co-authors check how much of nurses' bedside charting fits into a shared national data model, in a 2025 pilot study. Nurses record vast amounts of care in flowsheets, yet that record is hard to pool across hospitals for research. The team mapped flowsheet concepts and their values to two standard medical vocabularies.
About two-thirds of concepts and just over half of values found a match in the standard codes. Mapping each concept took about twice as long as mapping each value. The authors call the coverage a real gap: until nursing data map more fully, the national model cannot use bedside records at scale to improve care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Robin Austin, Malin Britt Lalich, Katy Stewart, Jonna Zarbano, Matthew Byrne, Melissa D. Pinto, Elizabeth E. Umberfield |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |