High Priority: Yes; Patient Experience
Patients age 60 years and older with a diagnosis of bilateral presbycusis or symmetric sensorineural hearing loss or their caregiver(s) who report shared decision making with a healthcare provider regarding treatment options for their hearing loss using a standardized tool and a subsequent plan of care.
Denominator:
1. Patients age 60 years and older with a diagnosis of bilateral presbycusis or symmetric sensorineural hearing loss.
2. Patients who report participation in shared decision making.
Denominator Exclusions:
None
Denominator Exceptions:
No response from patient after 2 electronic communications and 3 weeks after last communication; patient refusal.
Numerator:
1. Patients (or their caregivers) who report participation in shared decision making regarding treatment options for their hearing loss using a standardized tool.
2. Patients (or their caregivers) who report a treatment plan or documentation of a treatment plan in the medical record.
Measure Classifications:
- Measure Type: Patient Engagement/Experience
- National Quality Strategy (NQS) domain: Person and Caregiver Centered Experience and
- Outcomes
- Meaningful Measure Area: Patient’s Experience of Care
- Calculation: 1st Performance Rate
- Inverse Measure: No
- Continuous Measure: No
- Proportional Measure: Yes
- Ratio Measure: No
- Risk Adjusted: No
