The development of the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set and the Universal Minimum Health Data Set was helped by
A) establishing guidelines for outcomes research.
B) identifying the contribution of nursing care to patient outcomes.
C) prescribing data elements to be monitored in outcomes research.
D) reporting financial and statistical data from hospitals.

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The data sets facilitated consistency in data collection among healthcare organizations by prescribing the data elements to be gathered.The data sets helped facilitate standards about data elements but did not establish guidelines for outcomes research.The Nursing Role Effectiveness Model helped to identify the contribution of nursing care to patient outcomes.The Canadian Institute for Health Information established a reporting system to report financial and statistical data from hospitals.

The Development of the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set and the Universal