Sami Khella, MD, discusses using clinical scales and quality of life to assess myasthenia gravis severity and treatment response, while emphasizing the valuable perspective caregivers can provide on a patient’s daily functioning.
Transcript
So I ask the, “How ya doing?” question. While there are a number of scales, there’s the QMG and the MG-ADL scale, which is nice because it’s a quick and easy scale that you can use in front of the patient. I do it all the time.
It basically covers all of the various manifestations that patients have, but really, quality of life and how they’re able to do the things that they want and need to do is really my judgment—the way I judge how sick somebody is or how successful the treatment is.
