Annual assessment of ET severitY

Measure purpose: Ensure tremor severity is assessed routinely.

The numerator: patients whose tremor severity was assessed and recorded* annually 

is divided by

The denominator: patients 18 years and older with a diagnosis of essential tremor.

There are no exclusions for this measure. 

Key Phrases

Examples of key phrases you could document to meet the measure:

• TETRAS followed by numerical score
• Bain & Findley Clinical Tremor Rating Scale Score
• Archimedes Spirals documented
• Tremor severity followed by "mild, moderate or severe"

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Lu has 100 patients between January 1 and December 31 aged 18 years and older diagnosed with ET. This is the denominator. 

Of the 100 patients that qualify for this measure, 40 had an assessment of tremor severity recorded in the medical record for the year.  This is the numerator. 

Quality of patient care = 40/100. Dr. Lu has a score of 40% for this measure.