Driving Risk Referral

Measure Purpose: To ensure patients with dementia and seizures are safe drivers                                                              

The numerator: Patients who were referred for a driving fitness evaluation OR who were advised to no longer operate a motor vehicle at the visit where driving risk is positive

is divided by

The denominator: Patients aged 14 years of age and older who were identified as at risk for impairment during motor vehicle operation conversation

Exclusions:

• Patients that don't drive or no longer drive
• Patient refuses

NOTE: this is a measure is paired with Driving Risk Discussion

Key Phrases

Examples of key phrases you might use to meet the measure:

• Patient referred for evaluation
• Recommend patient no longer drives
• Patient advised to no longer drive

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Schmidt saw 100 patients over the age 14 with a neurological condition and were at risk to drive between January 1 to December 31 of the measurement year. This is the denominator. Two of those patients no longer drive. These patients are removed from the denominator.

Of the remaining 98 patients, 33 were referred for a driving fitness evaluation and one was advised to stop driving. This is the numerator.

Quality of care =34/(100-2). Dr. Schmidt has a score of 35% for this measure.