Acute Treatment prescribed for cluster headache

Measure Purpose: To optimally treat cluster headache

The numerator: Patients who were prescribed an acute treatment, including treatments prescribed by a different clinician once during the measurement period

is divided by

The denominator: Patients > 18 years of age with a diagnosis of cluster headache

Exclusions are removed from the denominator for:

• Guideline recommended treatment is medically contraindicated or ineffective for the patient
• Patient reports no CH attacks within the past 12 months or is not in an active attack period
• CH are sufficiently controlled with over the counter medications
• Patient and/or caregiver decline therapy
• Lack of insurance or insurance coverage for treatment prescribed

Key Phrases

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

• Acute treatment prescribed
• Sumatriptan SC prescribed

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Taylor had 50 patients over the age of 18 with a diagnosis of cluster headache between January 1 and December 31. This is the denominator. One patient has a contraindication, two patients are not in an active attack period, and one patient declines therapy. These four (1+2+1) patients are removed from the denominator.

Of the remaining 46 patients, 23 were prescribed an acute treatment. This is the numerator.

Quality of care = 23/(50-4). Dr. Taylor has a score of 50% for this measure.