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... They are intended to guide or review the performance of interventions, without concern for whether the interventions should have been performed in the first place" THE COMMITTEE'S PROVISIONAL DEFINITION: PERFORMANCE MEASURES Performance measures are methods or instruments to estimate or monitor the extent to which the actions of a health care practitioner or prouder conform to practice guidelines, medical review criteria, or standards of quality. Given the multiple common meanings of the terns and the paucity of professional and technical usage, the committee decided to oDer only a provisional definition of performance measures.


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