Quality of life assessment for patients with epilepsy
Measure Purpose: Assess patient quality of life regularly.
The numerator: patients with age-appropriate condition-specific quality of life assessed at least once in the measurement period
is divided by
the denominator: patients aged 4 years and older diagnosed with epilepsy.
Exclusions are allowed for:
- Patients who are unable or decline to complete the instrument and for these patients, a caregiver is not present to provide proxy report.
Key Phrases
Examples of key phrases you could use to meet the measure include:
- QOLIE-10 (followed by numerical score)
- QOLIE-1AD-48 (followed by numerical score)
- PIES (followed by numerical score)
- QOLCE-55 (followed by numerical score)
- GASE (followed by numerical score)
- CHQ (followed by numerical score)
- PedsQL Epilepsy Module (followed by numerical score)
- ESI-55 (followed by numerical score)
Measure Calculation Example
Dr. Ige sees 100 patients between January 1 and December 31 diagnosed with epilepsy over the age of 4. This is the denominator.
Of the 100 remaining patients, three refused to complete a quality of life assessment and a proxy was unavailable to provide this information. These patients are excluded.
Of the remaining 97 patients, 25 had documentation of a quality of life assessment during the measurement period. This is the numerator.
Quality of patient care = 25/(100-3). Dr. Ige has a score of 25.7% for this measure.