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OPERATION: Evaluate Measure
The evaluateMeasure operation is used to invoke an eMeasure and obtain the results
URL: [base]/Measure/$evaluate-measure
URL: [base]/Measure/[id]/$evaluate-measure
Parameters
| Use | Name | Cardinality | Type | Binding | Documentation | 
| IN | periodStart | 1..1 | date | The start of the measurement period | |
| IN | periodEnd | 1..1 | date | The end of the measurement period | |
| IN | measure | 0..1 | Reference | The measure to evaluate | |
| IN | reportType | 0..1 | code | The type of measure report, patient, patient-list, or population | |
| IN | patient | 0..1 | Reference | Patient to evaluate against | |
| IN | lastReceivedOn | 0..1 | dateTime | The date the results of this measure were last received | |
| OUT | return | 1..1 | MeasureReport | The results of the measure calculation | 
The effect of invoking this operation is to calculate the measure for the given patient, or all patients if no patient is supplied, and return the results as a MeasureReport resource of the appropriate type
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.