Validação clínica dos diagnósticos, intervenções e resultados de enfermagem : revisão narrativa da literatura

Abstract

The study aimed to evaluate the clinic validation process of diagnoses, interventions and nursing outcomes. Were selected two articles, six master dissertations and eight PhD thesis, fourteen of wich corresponded to researches about diagnoses and two were about Nursing Outcomes. Was realized that the studies design and the data analisis were aspects already weak. The Fehring validation model was the most common methodological reference identified. The clinic validation fase was preformed mainly by experts nurses. It can hightlight the importance of accomplish pilot testing besides to use a gold standard and variable use of statistical tests. Despite methodological diferences the authors emphasized need for futher validations with larger and different populations. The conclusion is that the clinic validation is essential, although there isn’t an uniform methodological course followed by the studies. It is necessary to develop and improve the taxonomies and its components.