0 Pro forma words or actions are usual or done in the usual way:
a pro forma declaration of loyalty
1 a list of things that have been ordered, sent with their prices to a customer so that the things can be paid for before they are delivered
2 used to describe financial results which are not final, but give an idea of what is expected before the real results are known:
3 created as an example to show how other documents of the same type should be written or prepared:
4 a particular type of letter, document, etc. that is created as an example to show how others of the same type should be written or prepared:
A simple bedside assessment should be used and the findings recorded within the clerking pro forma for stroke patients.
Four networks (25%) provided approval at a formal meeting, without a pro forma, and the other nine networks (56%) offered approval informally.
Three networks (19%) requested completion of a pro forma, with a review of the trial at a formal network meeting.
The interviewer recorded the responses to closed questions on the pro forma, and these responses were analysed quantitatively.
The bibliographic citations are merely pro forma; the author of neither paper has actually described this technique in print.
The educational background, economic status, employment status, duration of symptoms, associated medical illness, and history of previous abdominal surgery were recorded on a pro forma.
The process would then require only one set of information, rather than a different pro forma for each network, and aim to fulfil research governance requirements.
The allegorical disguise is strictly pro forma, designed to confer mythic stature on the protagonists and elevate the proceedings beyond the level of grubby recent history.