Measure Title: Knee Arthroscopy for Meniscal Repair: Change in a Validated Knee Measure Following Knee Arthroscopy for Meniscal Repair
Measure ID: HF8
High Priority Measure
Measure Type: Patient Reported Outcome
NQS Domain: Effective Clinical Care
Meaningful Measure: Functional Outcomes
Inverse Measure: No
Proportional Measure: No
Continuous Variable: Yes
Ratio Measure: Yes
Performance Rate Calculated: 1, 1st Performance Rate
Risk Adjusted: Yes
Brief description of the measure: Percentage of patients in the denominator who obtained at least a 10% improvement in knee pain and/or function as measured by validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) at 6 months post-op.
Eligible validated knee patient reported outcome measures include: : International Knee Documental Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Form (Pedi-IKDC), Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS), Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) [1]
DENOMINATOR: The number of all patients who received meniscal repair during the observation window from the surgeon and completed a validated knee-related PROM.
NUMERATOR: Patients whose knee pain and/or function scores at 6 months post-op improved by at least 10% (e.g., 10 points on a 100-point scale) from baseline.