Glossary

Git is a free, open-source version control system that tracks changes to files, especially source code, during software development. It helps people work together on projects of any size quickly and efficiently.

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 providers, quality analysts, implementers, and health information technology vendors understand eCQMs and eCQM-related documents. The guide provides background on an eCQM package, the building blocks of an eCQM, and an overview of understanding the human-readable format of the eCQM.

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.