Maintained or improved baseline quality of life for patients with Ms

Measure Purpose: Monitor and improve quality of life outcomes for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The numerator: patients with MS whose most recent score indicates results are maintained or improved on an age-appropriate quality of life tool in the past 12 months

is divided by

the denominator: all patients with a diagnosis of MS.

Exclusions are removed from the denominator for:

• Patients who are unable or decline to complete a quality of life instrument

Key Phrases

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

• MSIS-29 (followed by numerical score)
• PRIMUS (followed by numerical score)
• FAMS (followed by numerical score)

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Zhang sees 100 patients between January 1 and December 31 diagnosed with MS. This is the denominator. Six patients decline to complete a quality of life instrument and three patients have cognitive impairments that prevent them from completing a quality of life instrument. These nine (6+3) patients are removed from the denominator as exclusions.

Of the 91 remaining patients, 21 had quality of life scores that were maintained or improved during the 12-month measurement period.  This is the numerator.

Quality of patient care = 21/91. Dr. Zhang has a score of 23% for this measure.