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Operation-measure-care-gaps.json

Clinical Quality Information Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Not linked to any defined compartments

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Operation Definition

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  "id" : "Measure-care-gaps",
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  },
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    "valueCode" : "trial-use"
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  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/Measure-care-gaps",
  "version" : "4.1.0",
  "name" : "care-gaps",
  "title" : "Care Gaps",
  "status" : "draft",
  "kind" : "operation",
  "date" : "2021-03-11T17:06:20+11:00",
  "publisher" : "HL7 (FHIR Project)",
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  }],
  "description" : "The care-gaps operation is used to determine gaps-in-care based on the results of quality measures",
  "affectsState" : false,
  "code" : "care-gaps",
  "comment" : "The effect of invoking this operation is to calculate a set of measures for a particular topic (e.g. Preventive Care and Screening) and return a document describing the results of each measure for the given subject. Note that it is up to the server to determine whether or not the generated care gaps report is persisted. If the server does not persist the results, the operation does not affect state and can be invoked with a GET",
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    "documentation" : "The result of the care gaps report will be returned as a document bundle with a MeasureReport entry for each included measure",
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}

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