Table 2.

Reasons physicians do or do not routinely perform quantitative assessment

What motivates you to measure RA metrics routinely?	N=255*
To facilitate/improve clinical care	194 (76.1%)
To incorporate into medical decision making	160 (62.7%)
Easy, simple & useful	123 (48.2%)
For Medicare PQRS or other quality reporting programs	105 (41.2%)
Participation in a research registry v	47 (18.4%)
Insurance companies require it	47 (18.4%)
Treat-to-Target trials (TICORA, BeST) show impressive data	70 (27.5%)
Other	21 (8.2%)
Why don’t you collect RA metrics routinely?	N=184*
Takes too much of my time	115 (62.5%)
Not available on my EMR	64 (34.8%)
Don’t need them	54 (29.3%)
Too many to choose from	32 (17.4%)
Not required by payors	32 (17.4%)
Value is unproven	31 (16.8%)
Requires labs (CRP or ESR)	26 (14.1%)
Too difficult or complex	23 (12.5%)
Language/communication difficulties (elderly, Spanish-speaking, etc.)	20 (10.9%)

^*responses not required nor mutually exclusive, so row totals do not sum to 100%. Metric physicians provided responses listed in the top half of the table regarding the reasons that they measure quantitatively; non-metric physicians provided the responses listed in the bottom half of the table regarding the reasons that they do not measure quantitatively.