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identifiers names and codes (LOINC) (http://loinc.org/); and (3) systematic
nomenclature of medicine clinical terms (SNOMED CT) (http://www.ihtsdo.org/
snomed-ct/).
Finally, CNPII recognized two data element sets: nursing minimum data set
(NMDS) and nursing management minimum data set (NMMDS). Work on a
standardized data element set for nursing, which in the United States began in the
1980s with the nursing minimum data set NMDS (Werley & Lang, 1988), pro-
vided an additional catalyst for the development of many of the aforementioned
nursing terminologies that could pr ...