A task group that is charged with performing some type of specific activity or task.
A committee appointed for some special purpose and which automatically dissolves upon the completion of its specific task.
A group of people set up for a specific purpose: to consider or investigate a matter, to report on a matter, or to carry out certain duties. Committees can be self-appointed, but in the health care setting, they are ordinarily appointed, and their scope and powers derive from the authority which appointed them. The term “committee” is more often applied to a standing body than it is to an ad hoc (one-time) body set up to carry out a specific task and then be dissolved. The latter is more appropriately termed a “task force.”