Nursing-sensitive outcomes in adult inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT

AIMS: To evaluate nursing activity through outcomes that are affected, provided, and/or influenced by nurses and defined as nursing-sensitive outcomes in adult IBD patients. DESIGN: Systematic review without meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Library databases on August 2019. REVIEW METHODS: Peer-reviewed articles published between 2000-2020 were reviewed. The outcome measures were contextualized and presented by OMERACT Filter 2.0. RESULTS: Twenty-four studies were included. Eighteen nursing-sensitive outcomes were identified. These outcomes defined eight domains for health intervention, fitting into three core areas (resource use/economic impact, life impact, pathophysiological manifestations). Fifty-three measurement instruments were identified. CONCLUSIONS: Through 53 measurement tools, with use of OMERACT framework, 18 nursing-sensitive outcomes in the main 3 core areas were identified, highlighting the multidimensional role of nursing. Further insights are to be carried out to define nursing outcomes included in IBD nursing intervention studies. IMPACT These results could serve as a cornerstone for further investigations and validation by a panel of experts to standardizing nursing activity in a multidisciplinary context.