How to Use This Quality Report

To see the various parts of the report, click on the Quality Indicators and Practices link to the left or click report, on the Quality Indicators and Practices.

Indicators (numbers) and practices (self-assessments) have details available in pop-up boxes. For additional information, click on any cell in a table. If you do not see additional information, it may not be available at this time or you may have a pop-up blocker enabled on your browser.

Brief description gives a phrase to identify the indicator. Clicking on the indicator will give a more detailed description that explains any abbreviations and gives some of the technical details of the indicator.

Desired performance indicates whether low or high numbers reflect better performance on the indicator.

Color-coding assists in analyzing results, which are colored as red (worse than the national average), beige (near the national average) or green (better than the national average). If comparative data are unavailable or cannot be analyzed for technical reasons, statistics will be italicized and displayed in a white box. For some quality indicators it is unclear whether low or high performance is desirable. In such cases we color the results with orange or blue instead of red or green.