Supporting nurses' decisions with a multi-attribute model for patient health evaluation.

Nurses are required to make many important decisions, for instance on determining the level of the nursing problem, setting nursing diagnoses and interventions. The model presented in this paper is a tool for better and easier decision making is such situations. Multi-attribute modeling of patients' basic living activities is used for evaluation and explanation of their health status. It offers also visualization and quantification of the data which facilitate decision making in the framework of the process work method. The model can be viewed as an active check-list as it helps us reduce the possibility of "overlooking the queen on the chess board". The model was critically evaluated in practice.