Glossary

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system for tracking changes in any set of files among programmers cooperating on source code during software development. It is designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub, Inc. is a subsidiary of Microsoft, which provides hosting for software development and version control using Git.

Global Common Library is a shared Clinical Quality Language (CQL) library which contains CQL expressions for all eCQM developers to use when specifying electronic clinical quality measures. For more information, see the CQL Style Guide.

GRADE Evidence to Decision framework is a systematic and transparent approach to making well-informed health care choices.

Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) is a transparent framework for developing and presenting summaries of evidence and provides a systematic approach for making clinical practice recommendations. It is the most widely adopted tool for grading the quality of evidence and for making recommendations.

The Guide for Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) is a resource to help measured entities, quality analysts, implementers, and health information technology vendors understand eCQMs. The Guide provides background on eCQM packages, which are the building blocks of eCQMs, and an overview for a user to understand the human-readable format of eCQMs. The Guide also provides information related to value sets, Quality Data Model data criteria, and more.

Guideline evaluation activities are a systematic collection of information about a guideline. These activities involve collecting and analyzing information about a guideline's activities, characteristics, and outcomes to make judgments about the guideline, improve its effectiveness, and/or inform decisions about future guideline development.

Guideline Implementation with Decision Support (G.U.I.D.E.S.) is a tool to assist professionals when implementing guidelines with clinical decision support.

A guideline oversight or steering committee, selected at the beginning of a project, is an advisory body of senior interested parties or experts that gain leadership support and are accountable for the proposed guideline. This committee provides guidance on issues emerging in the guideline development process, including the products emerging from all guideline working groups.

A guideline recommendation tells the intended end-user of a guideline what they can or should do in specific situations to achieve the best health outcomes possible, individually or collectively. It offers a choice among different interventions or measures having an anticipated positive impact on health and implications for the use of resources. 

Guideline working groups include experts who conduct the guideline development work. Working groups can focus on different areas of expertise such as conducting the systematic literature review, developing the computable guideline, designing the implementation process, communicating/disseminating the guideline, or evaluating the impact of the guideline.