Abstract
An infrastructure to support the evaluation of patient care sensitive to the intervention of nursing personnel is being developed within a major health maintenance organization. In addition to traditional administrative measures of care, the database infrastructure will include measures of the patient's functional status, knowledge and engagement in care and psychosocial well-being. These measures are believed to be particularly sensitive to the independent intervention of the nurse. Reported here are the structures in place to monitor and support the reliability and validity of the administrative data elements; algorithm elements created to account for missing data; the model for the first generation of successful practice reports and the results of a study establishing the content validity of the clinical data elements.
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