Bladder infections for patients with Ms

Measure purpose: Monitor patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) bladder infection rates

The numerator: Patients with MS who have had a documented bladder infection in the past 12 months

is divided by

the denominator: All patients with a diagnosis of MS.

Exclusions are removed from the denominator:

• Patient has an indwelling catheter
• Patient has a diverting urostomy

Key Phrases

Examples of key phrases you could use to meet the measure include:

• Zero bladder infections
• Reports bladder infection
• Indwelling catheter

Measure Calculation Example

This is an inverse measure and a lower score is better. Dr. Hernandez sees 100 patients diagnosed with MS between January 1 and December 31. This is the denominator.

Six patients have in-dwelling catheter and one patient has diverting urostomy documented. These seven (6+1) patients are removed from the denominator as exclusions.

Of the remaining 93 patients, 43 experienced a bladder infection in the measurement period. This is the numerator.

Quality of patient care = 43/93. Dr. Reddy has a score of 46.2% for this measure.