High Priority: Yes; Care Coordination
Percentage of patients age 60 years and older who failed a hearing screening and/or who report suspected hearing loss
who received, were ordered, or were referred for comprehensive audiometric evaluation within 4 weeks the office visit.
Denominator:
All patients age 60 years and older who failed a hearing screening and/or report suspected hearing loss at the physician
office visit.
Denominator Exclusions:
None
Denominator Exceptions:
Medical reason for not evaluating for hearing loss include patients who had an audiogram within last year; patients with an
active diagnosis of deafness, hearing impairment, head or ear trauma, history of other hearing impairment. Patient refusal.
Numerator:
Patients who received, were ordered, or were referred for comprehensive audiometric evaluation.
*Audiometric Evaluation: The hearing evaluation should include a physical examination of the patient’s ears and an evaluation of the patient’s
hearing acuity using an audiometer in a sound booth. The hearing evaluation may include the use of pure tone audiometry, bone conduction
hearing testing, Hearing in Noise Testing, speech tests, acoustic reflex text, auditory brainstem response testing (e.g. when patient is not able
to complete behavioral audiometry) or other appropriate hearing evaluations tests.
Measure Classifications:
- Measure Type: Process
- National Quality Strategy (NQS) domain: Communication and Care Coordination
- Meaningful Measure Area: Preventive Care
- Calculation: 1st Performance Rate
- Inverse measure: No
- Continuous measure: No
- Proportional measure: Yes
- Ratio measure: No
- Risk Adjusted measure: No
