Quality Measure Implementation Guide (STU4)
4.0.0 - STU4
Quality Measure Implementation Guide (STU4)
4.0.0 - STU4
This page is part of the Quality Measure STU2 for FHIR R4 Implementation Guide (v4.0.0: STU4 (v4.0.0)) based on FHIR R4. This is the current published version in its permanent home (it will always be available at this URL). For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions 
| Active as of 2019-02-13 |
JSON representation of the cqfm-definitionTerm extension.
{
"resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
"id" : "cqfm-definitionTerm",
"text" : {
"status" : "extensions",
"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">Placeholder</div>"
},
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/StructureDefinition/cqfm-definitionTerm",
"version" : "2.0.0",
"name" : "CQFMDefinitionTerm",
"title" : "CQFM Definition Term",
"status" : "active",
"experimental" : false,
"date" : "2019-02-13",
"publisher" : "Clinical Quality Information WG",
"contact" : [
{
"telecom" : [
{
"system" : "url",
"value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cqi"
}
]
}
],
"description" : "Specifies a term and its associated definition.",
"jurisdiction" : [
{
"coding" : [
{
"system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
"code" : "US"
}
]
}
],
"purpose" : "A measure specification must be able to provide definitions for terms that are used to help communicate the measure intent.",
"fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
"mapping" : [
{
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"uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
"name" : "RIM Mapping"
}
],
"kind" : "complex-type",
"abstract" : false,
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{
"type" : "element",
"expression" : "Measure.definition"
}
],
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{
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"comment" : "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"comment" : "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"extensions",
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"extensions",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"code" : "date"
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{
"code" : "dateTime"
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{
"code" : "decimal"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"code" : "Age"
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{
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{
"code" : "Attachment"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"code" : "Signature"
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{
"code" : "Timing"
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{
"code" : "ContactDetail"
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{
"code" : "Contributor"
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{
"code" : "DataRequirement"
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{
"code" : "Expression"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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