Alignment of ICNP® 2.0 Ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian Ontology

Authors

  • Carina Maris Gaspar Carvalho Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Marcia Regina Cubas Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
  • Andreia Malucelli Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
  • Maria Miriam Lima da Nóbrega Universidade Federal da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.3442.2443

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to align the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) Version 2.0 ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian Ontology. METHOD: document-based, exploratory and descriptive study, the empirical basis of which was provided by the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology and the INCP® Brazilian Ontology. The ontology alignment was performed using a computer tool with algorithms to identify correspondences between concepts, which were organized and analyzed according to their presence or absence, their names, and their sibling, parent, and child classes. RESULTS: there were 2,682 concepts present in the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology that were missing in the Brazilian Ontology; 717 concepts present in the Brazilian Ontology were missing in the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology; and there were 215 pairs of matching concepts. CONCLUSION: it is believed that the correspondences identified in this study might contribute to the interoperability between the representations of nursing practice elements in ICNP®, thus allowing the standardization of nursing records based on this classification system.

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Published

2014-06-01

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (2014)

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Alignment of ICNP® 2.0 Ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian Ontology . (2014). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 22(3), 499-503. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.3442.2443