Abstract
Objective: To describe the scientific evidence in the area of health reports on the use of data mining as a tool for data processing and your effectiveness in assisting in decision-making in nursing. Methods: The methodology used was the integrative review. For selection of the publications have been used online platforms of databases: Lilacs, Scielo, MedLine and journals of Capes. The search of the publications was held with the descriptors: data mining, decision making and nursing, following the Boolean logic: and have been used articles between 2000 and 2017. Results: The study resulted in nine articles, distributed in the areas of Public Health, psychiatry and research, with the area of Nursing publications (five) and medicine (four). You can see the involvement of 30 authors, among them 26% (n=8) nurses, 23% (n=7) doctors and 23% (n=7) of the area you. Conclusion: It is concluded at the end of this research that data mining is an effective tool to aid decision-making in the field of nursing, since the traditional method of data analysis became impractical for high-volume data stored.