Patient outcomes in the field of nursing: A concept analysis

Abstract Purpose This paper reports an analysis of the concept of patient outcomes. Methods The Walker and Avant concept analysis approach was applied. Results The attributes of patient outcomes include (1) patient functional status (maintained or improved), (2) patient safety (protected or unharmed), and (3) patient satisfaction (patient reporting of comfort and contentment). These attributes are influenced by the antecedents of individual patient characteristics and health problems, the structure of healthcare organizations and received health interventions. Additionally, patient outcomes do significantly impact the quality of nursing care, the cost of effective care and healthcare policy making formulation. Conclusion Providing good nursing care to all patients is a central goal of nursing. Patient outcomes in nursing are primarily about the results for the patient receiving nursing care. This analysis provides nurses with a new perspective by helping them to understand all the components within the concept of patient outcomes.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  International Journal of Nursing Sciences

• Publication date

  2014-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.IJNSS.2014.02.006
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Nurse specialty subcultures and patient outcomes in acute care hospitals: A multiple-group structural equation modeling.

  2011cited by this paper
• The relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes: a case study.

  2009cited by this paper
• Provision of individualised care improves hospital patient outcomes: an explanatory model using LISREL.

  2007cited by this paper
• Supplemental Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Quality of Care

  2007cited by this paper
• Outcome measurement and management : first steps for the practicing clinician

  2007cited by this paper
• Longitudinal Analyses of Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes: More About Failure to Rescue

  2006cited by this paper
• Enhancing patient safety through organizational learning: Are patient safety indicators a step in the right direction?

  2006cited by this paper
• Measuring perinatal patient safety: review of current methods.

  2006cited by this paper
• Critical thinking and patient outcomes: a review.

  2005cited by this paper
• Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Emotional Exhaustion, and Job Dissatisfaction

  2005cited by this paper
• Nurse Staffing Models, Nursing Hours, and Patient Safety Outcomes

  2004cited by this paper
• Comparison of pressure ulcer grading scales: a study of clinical utility and inter-rater reliability.

  2004cited by this paper
• Nursing Sensitive Outcomes: State Of The Science

  2003cited by this paper
• The Quality‐Caring Model©: Blending Dual Paradigms

  2003cited by this paper
• Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction.

  2002cited by this paper
• American College of Clinical Pharmacology Response to the Institute of Medicine Report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System”

  2000cited by this paper
• Cognitive ability and functional status.

  2000cited by this paper
• Toward an unequivocal definition and classification of patient outcomes.

  1999influential reference
• Description of a health-related quality of life conceptual model.

  1999influential reference
• The Nursing Outcomes Classification.

  1998cited by this paper
• Measuring the outcomes of disease management.

  1997cited by this paper
• Measuring the effectiveness of nursing care.

  1997cited by this paper
• Whose outcomes. Patients, providers, or payers?

  1997cited by this paper
• Nurses' effect on changing patient outcomes.

  1995cited by this paper
• Functional status and health status.

  1994cited by this paper
• Functional Status and the Forward Progress of Merry‐Go‐Rounds: Toward a Coherent Analytical Framework

  1994cited by this paper
• Future data needs for quality of care monitoring, DRG considerations, reimbursement and outcome measurement.

  1991cited by this paper
• Major clinical functions: A unifying framework for measuring outcomes

  1991cited by this paper
• The classification of patient outcomes.

  1990cited by this paper
• Patient Outcomes Research Teams and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

  1990cited by this paper
• A brief self-administered questionnaire to determine functional capacity (the Duke Activity Status Index).

  1989cited by this paper
• The Medical Outcomes Study. An application of methods for monitoring the results of medical care.

  1989cited by this paper
• Outcome measurement: concepts and questions.

  1988cited by this paper
• The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization

  1987influential reference
• Strategies for theory construction in nursing

  1983influential reference
• The definition of quality and approaches to its assessment

  1980cited by this paper

• Patient satisfaction with cross-boundary healthcare: a cross-sectional study of Hong Kong residents’ healthcare utilization in mainland China

  2026cites this paper
• Prenatal rehabilitation: A concept analysis.

  2026cites this paper
• Emergency nurses’ and paramedics’ perspectives on interprofessional communication and handover in Palestinian emergency care

  2025cites this paper
• Pre-registration student nurse placement hours, competency, and outcomes: A systematic review.

  2025cites this paper
• Enhancing Healthcare Productivity through Digitalization and Digital Transformation: A Comparative Case Studies Analysis

  2025cites this paper
• Patient-Reported Outcomes, Influencing Factors, Nursing Care/Intervention(s) and Measurement Scales of Psychiatric and/or Mental Health Nursing in Hospitals: A Systematic Review.

  2025cites this paper
• Trauma and Violence Informed Care: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice.

  2025cites this paper
• A Conceptual Model of Individual Clinical Readiness.

  2024cites this paper
• Kan simulering innen akuttmedisinsk behandling påvirke pasientutfall?

  2023cites this paper
• The need for a nursing specific patient safety definition, a viewpoint paper

  2023cites this paper
• The Impact of Nursing Services on Patient Satisfaction: A Scientific Analysis of Hospitals Under the Libyan Ministry of Health

  2023cites this paper
• Agreement in the reporting of General Practitioner requested musculoskeletal radiographs: Reporting radiographers and consultant radiologists compared with an index radiologist.

  2022cites this paper
• The Influence of Nursing Simulation on Patient Outcomes and Patient Safety: A Scoping Review

  2022cites this paper
• Compassionate, collective or transformational nursing leadership to ensure fundamentals of care are achieved: A new challenge or non-sequitur?

  2022cites this paper
• Factors influencing poor medication adherence amongst patients with chronic disease in low-and-middle-income countries: A systematic scoping review

  2022cites this paper
• Patient voice in metastatic cancer: A conceptual analysis.

  2022cites this paper
• Measuring patient satisfaction in emergency department: An empirical test using structural equation modeling

  2022cites this paper
• Outpatient nurse staffing relationship with organizational, nurse and patient outcomes: A scoping review

  2022cites this paper
• Challenges using electronic nursing routine data for outcome analyses: A mixed methods study

  2021cites this paper
• Evaluation of the Status of Organizational Culture among Hospital Staff in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  2021cites this paper
• Systematic review: Nurses' safety attitudes and their impact on patient outcomes in acute‐care hospitals

  2021cites this paper
• Can prior hospitalisation experiences influence satisfaction with nursing care? Results in a school-aged children sample

  2021cites this paper
• A teaching tool for nursing procedure with oxygen therapy

  2021cites this paper
• Glasgow-Blatchford versus Rockall Scoring Systems for Predicting Outcomes of Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

  2021cites this paper
• The evidence supporting the association between the use of pain scales and outcomes in hospitalized children: A systematic review.

  2020cites this paper
• The Association between Nursing Skill Mix and Mortality for Adult Medical and Surgical Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review

  2020cites this paper
• Social Participation of Older Adults: A Concept Analysis

  2020cites this paper
• The use of faculty policy teams for advancing policy advocacy and colleagueship.

  2020cites this paper
• The rise of rapid implementation: a worked example of solving an existing problem with a new method by combining concept analysis with a systematic integrative review

  2020cites this paper
• Theory of Nursing Intuition and Its Philosophical Underpinnings

  2019cites this paper
• Psychological Trauma in the Context of Familial Relationships: A Concept Analysis

  2019cites this paper
• Enhancing Nurses toward Internal Marketing and its Effect on Patients’ Outcome at Benha University Hospital

  2019cites this paper
• Enhancing Nurses toward Internal Marketing and its Effect on Patients’ Outcome at Benha University Hospital

  2019cites this paper
• Development and Validation of the Self-care in Motor Neuron Disease Index.

  2019cites this paper
• Attention Health Care Leaders: Literature Review Deems Baccalaureate Nurses Improve Patient Outcomes

  2018cites this paper
• Thoughts About Nursing Curricula: Dark Clouds and Bright Lights

  2018cites this paper
• Pedagogic frailty: A concept analysis

  2017cites this paper
• Lived Experiences of Individuals Quality of Life on Prolonged Home Mechanical Ventilation

  2017cites this paper
• The development of guidelines to support infant feeding practices of hiv-positive mothers in the Mbombela municipality of Mpumalanga Province

  2017cites this paper
• The contribuition of nursing intervention in the study of touchpoints model's efficacy

  2016cites this paper
• “Touchpoints”: parents and nurses’ perceptions and satisfaction

  2016cites this paper
• Implementation of the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) Tool on Inpatient Mental Health Unit

  year unknowncites this paper