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... Relation of Guidelines to Review Criteria and Other Evaluation Tools In the committee's reading, OBRA 89 does not use the terms standards of quaky, performance measures, and medical review criteria as synonyms for practice guidelines. Instead, it links these three terms to evaluating practice rather than to assisting practitioners and patients.3 Although the Forum is required to arrange for the development of these tools, other sponsors of guidelines may do no more than offer general observations on how the guidelines should or should not be used in evaluating practitioner decisions and outcomes.


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