OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the accuracy of the defining characteristics of the @entity3887 nursing diagnosis of NANDA International, in @entity1 undergoing hemodialysis. METHOD: this was a study of diagnostic accuracy, with a cross-sectional design, performed in two stages. The first, involving 100 @entity1 from a dialysis clinic and a university hospital in northeastern Brazil, investigated the presence and absence of the defining characteristics of @entity3887 . In the second step, these characteristics were evaluated by diagnostic nurses, who judged the presence or absence of the diagnosis. To analyze the measures of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were calculated. Approval was given by the Research Ethics Committee under authorization No. 148.428. RESULTS: the most sensitive indicator was @entity4 and most specific were @entity891 , @entity1353 sounds and restlessness. CONCLUSION: the more accurate defining characteristics, considered valid for the diagnostic inference of @entity3887 in @entity1 undergoing hemodialysis were @entity4 , @entity891 , @entity1353 sounds and restlessness. Thus, in the presence of these, the nurse may safely assume the presence of the diagnosis studied.

Diagnostic accuracy of the defining characteristics of the excessive fluid volume diagnosis in hemodialysis XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity3887 :: ('MESH:C531600', 'Disease') :: ['excess fluid volume'] @entity1353 :: ('MESH:D004417', 'Disease') :: ['adventitious breath'] @entity4 :: ('MESH:D004487', 'Disease') :: ['edema'] @entity891 :: ('MESH:D001261', 'Disease') :: ['pulmonary congestion']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
