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.

GRADE Evidence to Decision framework is a systematic and transparent approach to making well-informed health care choices. By using the GRADE EtD framework, healthcare organizations can make more consistent and evidence-based decisions about quality measures, which helps improve the overall quality of care provided to patients.

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 designed to help healthcare professionals, implementers, and developers understand how eCQMs are structured, calculated, and reported. eCQMs are standardized measures used to assess the quality of care provided to patients, using data from electronic health records (EHRs). In other words, it’s a “how-to manual” for understanding, implementing, and using electronic quality measures in clinical practice.

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 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.