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The case for expressing nursing theories using ontologies

Nursing and informatics share a common strength in their use of structured representations of domains, specifically the underlying notion of ‘things’ (ie, concepts, constructs, or named entities) and the relationships among those things. Accurate representation of nursing knowledge in machine-interp...

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Autores principales: Umberfield, Elizabeth E, Ball Dunlap, Patricia A, Harris, Marcelline R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10586024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37308323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad095
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description Nursing and informatics share a common strength in their use of structured representations of domains, specifically the underlying notion of ‘things’ (ie, concepts, constructs, or named entities) and the relationships among those things. Accurate representation of nursing knowledge in machine-interpretable formats is a necessary next step for leveraging contemporary technologies. Expressing validated nursing theories in ontologies, and in particular formal ontologies, would serve not only nursing, but also investigators from other domains, clinical information system developers, and the users of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence that seek to learn from the real-world data and evidence generated by nurses and others. Such efforts will enable sharing knowledge and conceptualizations about phenomena across the domains of nursing and generating, testing, revising, and providing theoretically-based perspectives when leveraging contemporary technologies. Nursing is well situated for this work, leveraging intentional and focused collaborations among nurse informaticists, scientists, and theorists.
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spelling pubmed-105860242023-10-20 The case for expressing nursing theories using ontologies Umberfield, Elizabeth E Ball Dunlap, Patricia A Harris, Marcelline R J Am Med Inform Assoc Perspective Nursing and informatics share a common strength in their use of structured representations of domains, specifically the underlying notion of ‘things’ (ie, concepts, constructs, or named entities) and the relationships among those things. Accurate representation of nursing knowledge in machine-interpretable formats is a necessary next step for leveraging contemporary technologies. Expressing validated nursing theories in ontologies, and in particular formal ontologies, would serve not only nursing, but also investigators from other domains, clinical information system developers, and the users of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence that seek to learn from the real-world data and evidence generated by nurses and others. Such efforts will enable sharing knowledge and conceptualizations about phenomena across the domains of nursing and generating, testing, revising, and providing theoretically-based perspectives when leveraging contemporary technologies. Nursing is well situated for this work, leveraging intentional and focused collaborations among nurse informaticists, scientists, and theorists. Oxford University Press 2023-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10586024/ /pubmed/37308323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad095 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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