Abstract
A valid and reliable nursing assessment is essential for identifying required care and ensuring patient safety. The convenience of conducting a comprehensive assessment of the patient has led to a significant increase in assessment tools that may slow down the process. Nevertheless, the possibility of consolidating various instruments that measure common or similar constructs into a meta-instrument is considered an alternative that could enhance assessment efficiency.A meta-instrument can be defined as a measurement tool that consolidates other instruments based on measuring related constructs and sharing dimensions or items, aiming to achieve a more parsimonious measurement. Literature on such assessment tools is scarce, and there are numerous options for their construction and initial validation. Additionally, it is advisable to confirm their psychometric properties and ensure that they maintain, at the very least, the same diagnostic capacity as the original instruments.This article presents a proposal for the phases to follow in constructing meta-instruments, along with various methodological alternatives that can be employed based on the characteristics of the original instruments and the purpose of creating the meta-instrument. Furthermore, special attention is given to the checklists that should be used to study the psychometric properties and diagnostic capacity of the meta-instruments. Finally, future lines of research and challenges in the development of nursing assessment meta-instruments are discussed.
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