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Clinical Practice Guidelines Directions for a New Program (1990) / Chapter Skim
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... shall establish standards and criteria tO be utilized by the recipients of contracts" for "developing and periodically reviewing and updating" guidelines, standards, performance measures, and review criteria. Confusion is likely if "criteria arid standards" are used to label both the bases for prospectively assessing practice guidelines and the bases for assessing clinician practice.
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  • review criteria
  • medical review
  • expert panels
  • practice parameters

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  • prospectively assessing
  • iom report

  • practice guideline
  • clinical conditions
  • recent iom
  • medicare program


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