The Clinical Classification System - Evidence Based Coding
CCC Manual

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Uses

The CCC System facilitates capturing standardized data with the electronic documentation of patient care at the point-of-care, permitting analysis of nursing practices. CCC is designed for:

Nursing Practice Applications

  • Captures patient care data using a standardized coded nursing terminology.
  • Uniquely identifies and codes the clinical encounter problems and treatments (essence of care).
  • Enables tracking of nurses’ contributions in patient care and outcomes.
  • Provides the standardized elements for clinical pathways and decision support used in operationalizing nursing care.
  • Enables honing of evidence-based practice protocols by providing standardized terminology to capture patient care data and to evaluate the effect of nursing care on patient outcomes.

Nursing Administration Applications

  • Provides standardized terminology to:
    • Capture patient care data and measure the impact and effectiveness of nursing care on patient outcomes.
    • Help predict workload and resource needs.
    • Help determine costs of nursing care.

Nursing Educational Applications

  • Teaches students how to electronically document and code the nursing process.
  • Teaches the characteristics of a nursing terminology for documenting patient care.

Nursing Research Applications

  • Codes nursing care of patients with specific disease conditions to support analysis and evaluation of patient outcomes.
  • Provides coded standardized diagnostic and action concepts that facilitate the design of expert systems.
  • Supports research to advance nursing knowledge.