MD multidisciplinary care plan developed or updated

Measure Purpose: Enable the diagnosis of specific disorders, management of complications, optimize survival, and maintain quality of life

The numerator: Patients for whom a MD multi-disciplinary care plan* was developed, if not done previously, or the plan was updated at least once annually.

*See full specifications for additional details

is divided by

The denominator: All patients diagnosed with a muscular dystrophy

Exclusions are removed from the denominator for:

• Plan was updated with 12 months of the date of the encounter
• Patient or family caregiver declines
• Patient has no insurance to cover the cost of seeing specialists or other clinicians in a multi-discplinary care plan, cannot travel to see specialist, multi-disciplinary services unavailable

Key Phrases

Key Phrases you should use to meet this measure include:

• Multi-disciplinary care plan developed
• Multi-disciplinary care plan updated

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Ouellet had 30 patients with muscular dystrophy seen between January 1 and December 31 of the measurement year. This is the denominator. Three patients already had an updated plan and two declined. These patients are removed from the denominator.

Of the remaining 25 patients, 17 had multi-disciplinary care plans developed or updated. This is the numerator.

Quality of care = 17/(30-5). Dr. Ouellet has a score of 68% for this measure.