High Priority: No; N/A
Percentage of patients age 6 months to 12 years of age at the time of the visit with a diagnosis of otitis media with effusion including chronic serous, mucoid, or nonsuppurative otitis media with effusion of ≥3 months duration who had audiometry performed, ordered or who were referred for an audiometric evaluation.
Denominator:
All patients age 6 months through 12 years of age with a diagnosis of otitis media with effusion including chronic serous, mucoid, or nonsuppurative otitis media with effusion of ≥3 months duration.
Denominator Exclusions:
None
Denominator Exceptions:
Patient who had a hearing test within 6 months of the original diagnosis of otitis media with effusion including chronic serous, mucoid, or nonsuppurative otitis media with effusion.
Numerator:
Patients who had a hearing test performed, ordered or who were referred for an audiometric evaluation.
Measure Classifications:
- Measure Type: Process
- National Quality Strategy (NQS) domain: Effective Clinical Care
- 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
