I can t remember my password. I can t remember my password. If you have Internet Explorer and Word and you click the Download a Microsoft Word document button, a Microsoft Word document will open within your Internet application. If you have any other browser or word processing software, a message box will prompt you with the appropriate format to save the file. This custom study uses median and quartile values to compare your chosen hospital with the 100 Top Hospitals.
Quartile values divide a sample of hospitals into four groups equal in number.
For performance measures for which values above the median are favorable, the benchmark best quartile shows the 75 th percentile value for the benchmark group. For performance measures for which values below the median are favorable, the benchmark best quartile shows the 25 th percentile value for the benchmark group. Please see above for an explanation of quartiles and refer to the Methodology section for more details on each performance measure and an indication of whether higher or lower values are favorable. There are a number of reasons why a hospital may have been excluded from the original 100 Top Hospitals study. The following types of hospitals have been excluded.