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Table 2 Number of decision rules for data coding and extraction

From: Content and comprehensiveness in the nursing documentation for residents in long-term dementia care: a retrospective chart review

1. No specific structure required for the nursing diagnose formulation for selection from the nursing care plan

2. The interventions present in the nursing care plan must be connected or related to the identified nursing diagnoses

3. All recorded interventions (connected to the identified nursing diagnoses) are implemented when it is recorded that the intervention has been done (completed)

4. Recorded nursing goals and nursing outcomes need to be clearly formulated as resident outcomes