Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs)
"IQI" stands for Inpatient Quality Indicator. IQIs reflect the quality of care given in hospitals. Inpatient Quality Indicators include four distinct types of measures.

1. Volume measures consider the total number of a specified inpatient procedure performed at a given hospital. Volume indicators simply represent counts of admissions in which these procedures were performed.
2. In-hospital mortality for procedures include procedures for which mortality has been shown to vary across institutions and for which there is evidence that high mortality may be associated with poorer quality of care.
3. In-hospital mortality for conditions include conditions for which mortality has been shown to vary substantially across institutions and for which evidence suggests that high mortality may be associated with deficiencies in the quality of care
4. Utilization measures consider cases in which questions have been raised about the overuse, underuse and misuse of certain procedures. (Note that UCHC does not provide Utilization rates in our reports.)

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