The epidemiologic approach to the study of clinical nursing diagnoses

Abstract

There is a nomenclature for classifying personal features of the host, that is, the patient. There is a nomenclature for classifying features of disease such as organs, tissues, and cells. There is also a nomenclature for classifying agents of treatment such as drugs. But there is no nomenclature in in either clinical medicine or clinical nursing for the classification of the features of interaction between the host and the disease, that is, the illness of the patient.