Using the Physician Global Assessment in a clinical setting to measure and track patient outcomes.

Importance: In dermatology, the development of objective, standardized quality measures that can be used in a clinical setting is important to be able to respond to the needs of payers and credentialing and licensure bodies and to demonstrate dermatologic value.

Objective: To examine the feasibility of using Physician Global Assessment (PGA) scores to collect and track patient acne and psoriasis outcomes over time.

Design, Setting, And Participants: The PGA severity scores were included on physicians' billing sheets for patients with acne and psoriasis seen at a tertiary care center outpatient dermatology clinic from June 2011 through October 2012.