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Health care benchmarking: a team approach. 1994

M Patrick, and T Alba

SunHealth.

The management tool of benchmarking, widely used in industry for more than a decade, is today being adapted for health care organizations. Hospitals and other health care providers are developing ways to compare their practices, processes, and resulting outcomes with other organizations in order to discover "best practices." This article describes a team approach to health care benchmarking and details several projects being conducted by hospitals in The SunHealth Alliance. The examples include benchmarking for both operational and clinical processes.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007324	Institutional Management Teams	Administrator-selected management groups who are responsible for making decisions pertaining to the provision of integrated direction for various institutional functions.	Management Teams, Institutional,Institutional Management Team,Management Team, Institutional,Team, Institutional Management,Teams, Institutional Management
D008500	Medical Records Department, Hospital	Hospital department responsible for the creating, care, storage and retrieval of medical records. It also provides statistical information for the medical and administrative staff.	Hospital Medical Records Department,Medical Records Department,Department, Medical Records,Departments, Medical Records,Medical Records Departments,Records Department, Medical,Records Departments, Medical
D009096	Multi-Institutional Systems	Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.	Multi-Hospital Systems,Multi-Institutional System,Multihospital Systems,System, Multi-Hospital,System, Multi-Institutional,Systems, Multi-Institutional,Multi Hospital Systems,Multi Institutional System,Multi Institutional Systems,Multi-Hospital System,Multihospital System,System, Multi Hospital,System, Multi Institutional,System, Multihospital,Systems, Multi Institutional,Systems, Multi-Hospital,Systems, Multihospital
D010043	Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care	Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.	Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care),Donabedian Model,Donabedian Triad,Outcome and Process Assessment,Structure Process Outcome Triad,Model, Donabedian,Triad, Donabedian
D010934	Planning Techniques	Procedures, strategies, and theories of planning.	Planning Theories,Methodology, Planning,Planning Methodology,Planning Technic,Planning Methodologies,Planning Technics,Planning Technique,Planning Theory,Technic, Planning,Technique, Planning,Theory, Planning
D012107	Research Design	A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.	Experimental Design,Data Adjustment,Data Reporting,Design, Experimental,Designs, Experimental,Error Sources,Experimental Designs,Matched Groups,Methodology, Research,Problem Formulation,Research Methodology,Research Proposal,Research Strategy,Research Technics,Research Techniques,Scoring Methods,Adjustment, Data,Adjustments, Data,Data Adjustments,Design, Research,Designs, Research,Error Source,Formulation, Problem,Formulations, Problem,Group, Matched,Groups, Matched,Matched Group,Method, Scoring,Methods, Scoring,Problem Formulations,Proposal, Research,Proposals, Research,Reporting, Data,Research Designs,Research Proposals,Research Strategies,Research Technic,Research Technique,Scoring Method,Source, Error,Sources, Error,Strategies, Research,Strategy, Research,Technic, Research,Technics, Research,Technique, Research,Techniques, Research
D003625	Data Collection	Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.	Data Collection Methods,Dual Data Collection,Collection Method, Data,Collection Methods, Data,Collection, Data,Collection, Dual Data,Data Collection Method,Method, Data Collection,Methods, Data Collection
D004636	Emergency Service, Hospital	Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.	Emergency Outpatient Unit,Emergency Services Utilization,Hospital Emergency Room,Hospital Emergency Service,Hospital Emergency Services Utilization,Accident and Emergency Department,Emergency Departments,Emergency Hospital Service,Emergency Room,Emergency Units,Emergency Ward,Hospital Service Emergency,Service, Hospital Emergency,Department, Emergency,Departments, Emergency,Emergencies, Hospital Service,Emergency Department,Emergency Hospital Services,Emergency Outpatient Units,Emergency Room, Hospital,Emergency Rooms,Emergency Rooms, Hospital,Emergency Services, Hospital,Emergency Unit,Emergency Wards,Emergency, Hospital Service,Hospital Emergency Rooms,Hospital Emergency Services,Hospital Service Emergencies,Hospital Service, Emergency,Hospital Services, Emergency,Outpatient Unit, Emergency,Outpatient Units, Emergency,Room, Emergency,Room, Hospital Emergency,Rooms, Emergency,Rooms, Hospital Emergency,Service Emergencies, Hospital,Service Emergency, Hospital,Service, Emergency Hospital,Services Utilization, Emergency,Services Utilizations, Emergency,Services, Emergency Hospital,Services, Hospital Emergency,Unit, Emergency,Unit, Emergency Outpatient,Units, Emergency,Units, Emergency Outpatient,Utilization, Emergency Services,Ward, Emergency,Wards, Emergency
D006788	Hospitals, Voluntary	Private, not-for-profit hospitals that are autonomous, self-established, and self-supported.	Hospitals, Private, Not-for-Profit,Hospitals Privates, Not-for-Profit,Not-for-Profit Hospitals Private,Not-for-Profit Hospitals Privates,Private, Not-for-Profit Hospitals,Voluntary Hospitals,Hospital, Voluntary,Hospitals Private, Not-for-Profit,Hospitals Privates, Not for Profit,Not for Profit Hospitals Private,Not for Profit Hospitals Privates,Private, Not for Profit Hospitals,Privates, Not-for-Profit Hospitals,Voluntary Hospital
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.