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Analysis: Availability of Data for Measure Components
Five key steps comprise a quality measure calculation algorithm, determining whether a patient meets criteria ...
- for inclusion in the preliminary denominator
- to be excluded from the preliminary denominator
- for membership in the final denominator (after exclusions)
- for membership in the measure numerator
- for selection for both the numerator and denominator
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