Clinical Practice Guidelines
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Clinical Practice Guidelines, published by HL7 International / Clinical Decision Support. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 3.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cqf-recommendations/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: CPG Measure Type Code System

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/cpg/CodeSystem/cpg-measure-type-cs Version: 3.0.0-ballot
Active as of 2026-11-10 Computable Name: CPGMeasureTypeCS
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.48.16.10

Additional measure types for metrics defined as part of a computable clinical practice guideline. Where a code specializes one of the base measure types, the measure-type property identifies it.

This Code system is referenced in the definition of the following value sets:

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
measure-type measure-type http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-type Coding The base measure type that this measure type specializes

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/cpg/CodeSystem/cpg-measure-type-cs defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinitionmeasure-type
compliance Compliance A process metric that evaluates whether the care delivered to a patient conforms to an individual guideline recommendation — typically whether the activity proposed by a CPGProposal was fulfilled by a corresponding request and/or event and, where specified, within the required time relative to the proposal or to an anchoring case feature. A compliance metric is scoped to a single CPGRecommendation (or a goal it supports) and evaluates the care process, not patient behavior. Process
adherence Adherence A composite metric that evaluates where a patient is with respect to a CPGStrategy or CPGPathway as a whole, typically by rolling up the compliance and/or intermediate-outcome metrics scoped to the recommendations within that strategy or pathway, using logic defined by the guideline development group or the local implementation. Pathway adherence (colloquially 'on path' or 'off path') is a special case.

Description of the above table(s).