This Fiscal Year 2027 Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program Guide may be used as a resource to help you understand the requirements of the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program.

• IQR is a Pay for Reporting program established in 2003 that mandates any "eligible hospital" who does not successfully report all information as requested by CMS will receive a penalty.

What Is Interquartile Range (IQR)? The Interquartile Range (IQR) is defined as the difference between the third quartile (Q3) and the first quartile (Q1).

Interquartile range The interquartile range, IQR, is the range of the middle 50% of the data set. Interquartile range = Upper quartile — Lower quartile = Q3 − Q1 The interquartile range is a useful …

There is also a measure of spread that goes with the median called the interquartile range (IQR). Finding the IQR involves partitioning a data set into fourths. Each of the three values that cut the …

Another measure of dispersion is called the interquartile range, or IQR. Before we can discuss how to determine the IQR we will need to understand some more measures of location, specifically percentiles.

Median and Interquartile Range is the second lesson in a series of lessons that investigates the statistical process. In this lesson students are introduced to the median and, by taking the median of …