Description

A comprehensive, standardized classification of patient/client outcomes developed to evaluate the effects of nursing interventions. An outcome is a measurable individual, family, or community state, behavior or perception that is measured along a continuum and is responsive to nursing interventions.

Contact Information For Nursing Content: Sue Moorhead, PhD, RN, Center Director The Center for Nursing Classification & Clinical Effectiveness University of Iowa College of Nursing, 458 Nursing Building Iowa City, IA 52242-1121 Phone: 319-335-7051 FAX: 319-335-9990 For Licenses: Karen Delany Elsevier Health Services 1600 John F Kennedy Blvd Suite 1800 Philadelphia PA 19103 Phone 215-239-3278 Email: nicoc@elsevier.com

Latest Version Moorhead, S., Johnson, M., Maas, M. (2004). Nursing Outcomes Classification (3rd ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Number of Nursing Terms 330 outcomes

Relationship of NOC to Other ANA Recognized Terminologies and Data Element Sets
Included in SNOMED CT

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• Registered in HL7
• Translated into Dutch, Japanese, Korean, French, and Spanish and several other translations are in progress including German and Portuguese