The Measure resource provides the definition of a quality measure.

The metadata for the measure, including publishing, life-cycle, version, documentation, and supporting evidence.

A reference to a Library resource containing the formal logic used by the measure.

A disclaimer for the use of the measure.

The measure scoring type, e.g. proportion, CV.

The measure type, e.g. process, outcome.

A description of the risk adjustment factors that may impact the resulting score for the measure and how they may be accounted for when computing and reporting measure results.

A description of the rate aggregation for the measure.

The rationale for the measure.

The clinical recommendation statement for the measure.

Improvement notation for the measure, e.g. higher score indicates better quality.

A narrative description of the complete measure calculation.

Additional guidance for the measure including how it can be used in a clinical context, and the intent of the measure.

The measure set, e.g. Preventive Care and Screening.

A group of population criteria for the measure.

A unique identifier for the group. This identifier will used to report data for the group in the measure report.

Optional name or short description of this group.

The human readable description of this population group.

A population criteria for the measure.

The type of population criteria.

A unique identifier for the population criteria. This identifier is used to report data against this criteria within the measure report.

Optional name or short description of this population.

The human readable description of this population criteria.

The name of a valid referenced CQL expression (may be namespaced) that defines this population criteria.

The stratifier criteria for the measure report, specified as either the name of a valid CQL expression defined within a referenced library, or a valid FHIR Resource Path.

The identifier for the stratifier used to coordinate the reported data back to this stratifier.

The criteria for the stratifier. This must be the name of an expression defined within a referenced library.

The path to an element that defines the stratifier, specified as a valid FHIR resource path.

The supplemental data criteria for the measure report, specified as either the name of a valid CQL expression within a referenced library, or a valid FHIR Resource Path.

An identifier for the supplemental data.

An indicator of the intended usage for the supplemental data element. Supplemental data indicates the data is additional information requested to augment the measure information. Risk adjustment factor indicates the data is additional information used to calculate risk adjustment factors when applying a risk model to the measure calculation.

The criteria for the supplemental data. This must be the name of a valid expression defined within a referenced library, and defines the data to be returned for this element.

The supplemental data to be supplied as part of the measure response, specified as a valid FHIR Resource Path.