Clinical Quality Language Specification
2.0.0-ballot - R2 STU 1 (Ballot)

Clinical Quality Language Specification, published by Clinical Decision Support WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cql/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Appendix E - Acronyms

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Acronym | Definition/Description
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AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
ANTLR4 | ANother Tool for Language Recognition (version 4)
CDA | Clinical Document Architecture
CDS | Clinical Decision Support
CDSC L3 | Clinical Decision Support Consortium Level 3
CDS KAS | Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Artifact Specification
CMS | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CPT | Current Procedural Terminology
CQL | Clinical Quality Language
CQM | Clinical Quality Measure
CREF | Allscripts Common Rule Engine Format (CREF) specification
CTS2 | Common Terminology Services 2
DAM | Domain Analysis Model
DSTU | Draft Standard for Trial Use
eCQI | Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement
eCQM | Electronic Clinical Quality Measure
EHR | Electronic Health Record
ELM | Expression Logical Model
EMR | Electronic Medical Record
eRecs | AHRQ Electronic Recommendations
FHIR | Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
GEM | Guidelines Element Model
HeD | Health eDecisions
HIE | Health Information Exchange
HIT | Health Information Technology
HITECH Act | Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HITSP | Health Information Technology Standards Panel
HL7 | Health Level 7
HQMF | Health Quality Measure Format
ICD-9-CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision
ICD-10 | International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
IHTSDO | International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization
ISO | International Organization for Standardization
LOINC | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
MAT | Measure Authoring Tool
NCQA | National Committee for Quality Assurance
NQF | National Quality Foundation
OID | Object Identifier
ONC | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
PHR | Personal Health Record
QDM | Quality Data Model
QRDA | Quality Reporting Document Architecture
QUICK | Quality Improvement and Clinical Knowledge
RIM | Reference Information Model
SI | International System of Units
SNOMED-CT | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
SQL | Structured Query Language
UCUM | Unified Code for Units of Measure
UML | Unified Modeling Language
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier
URL | Uniform Resource Locator
URN | Uniform Resource Name
USHIK | United States Health Information Knowledgebase
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time
VSAC | Value Set Authority Center
XMI | XML Metadata Interchange
XML | eXtended Markup Language

Table 12‑A - Acronyms used in this specification