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.
ANS: C
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