Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
The ANA's Congress of Nursing Practice Steering Committee on Databases to Support Clinical Nursing Practice has recognized Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) as a classification system useful for clinical nursing practice.
NOC has also been included in the National Library of Medicine for inclusion in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus.
NOC is also officially registerd as an HL7 terminology.