Nutrition status or growth trajectories monitored

Measure Purpose: Maintain adequate nutrition and body weight to optimize strength, function, and quality of life

The numerator: Patient visits where the patient's nutritional status or growth trajectories were monitored*

*See full specifications for additional details

is divided by

The denominator: All visits for patients diagnosed with muscular dystrophy

Exclusions are removed from the denominator for:

• Patient is already being followed by a nutritionist or other qualified specialist for these issues
• Patient or caregiver declines
• Patient is unable to travel to specialist

Key Phrases

Key Phrases you should use to meet this measure include:

• Nutritional status monitored
• Growth trajectories monitored

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Wright had 25 patient visits with patients with muscular dystrophy. This is the denominator. One patient declined monitoring and one patient was already seeing a nutritionist. These patients are removed from the denominator.

Of the remaining 23 patients, nine were monitored for nutritional status or growth trajectories. This is the numerator.

Quality of care = 9/(25-2). Dr. Wright has a score of 39% for this measure.