Benchmarking - Methods
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Monday, March 15, 2010

AMCP Guide to Pharmaceutical Payment Methods, 2009 Update (Version 2.0).

30 Jul 2009 The methods by which the U.S. health care system pays for prescription drugs have faced increasing scrutiny in recent years. Two key developments have emerged: (a) congressional enactment of important changes in the basis for payments for ... Read more...

Safeguarding quality: building the business case to prevent nursing-sensitive hospital-acquired conditions.

29 Jun 2009 In the wake of recent changes by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and a profoundly weakening economic climate, concern about preventable, hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) has captured the ... Read more...

Approaches to seizure risk assessment in preclinical drug discovery.

19 Jun 2009 Assessment of seizure risk traditionally occurs late in the drug discovery process using low-throughput, resource intensive in vivo assays. Such approaches do not allow sufficient time to mitigate risk by influencing chemical design. Early ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Benchmarking - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Data envelopment analysis: a method for comparing hospital pharmacy productivity. 13 Sep 2009
• AMCP Guide to Pharmaceutical Payment Methods, 2009 Update (Version 2.0). 30 Jul 2009
• Safeguarding quality: building the business case to prevent nursing-sensitive hospital-acquired conditions. 29 Jun 2009
• Approaches to seizure risk assessment in preclinical drug discovery. 19 Jun 2009
• Using the NCDB for cancer care improvement: an introduction to available quality assessment tools. 13 Jun 2009
• Volume- or outcome-based referral to improve quality of care for esophageal cancer surgery in The Netherlands. 13 Jun 2009
• Outcome--more than just operative mortality. 13 Jun 2009
• Estimating the number needed to treat from continuous outcomes in randomised controlled trials: methodological challenges and worked example using data from the UK Back Pain Exercise and Manipulation (BEAM) trial. 9 Jun 2009
• Using NDNQI data to manage CAUTI. 30 May 2009
• CAUTION: popular "benchmark" data sets do not distinguish the merits of 3D QSAR methods. 30 May 2009
• Measuring our work: scenarios to value productivity in health care. 13 May 2009
• Development of site-specific sediment quality guidelines for North and South Atlantic littoral zones: comparison against national and international sediment quality benchmarks. 2 May 2009
• Benchmarking best practice: using quality measures to strengthen equipment services. 29 Apr 2009
• The evaluation of a successful home hemodialysis program: establishing a prospective framework for quality. 29 Apr 2009
• Promoting Global Research Excellence in Severe Sepsis (PROGRESS): lessons from an international sepsis registry. 26 Apr 2009
• Benchmarking with Spine Tango: potentials and pitfalls. 30 Mar 2009
• Dissemination and effectiveness of multisystemic treatment in New Zealand: a benchmarking study. 30 Mar 2009
• Going around in circles: is this the best practice for preparing the skin? 30 Mar 2009
• The development and testing of a survey instrument for benchmarking dental plan performance: using insured patients' experiences as a gauge of dental care quality. 30 Jan 2009
• How to try this: Assessment of transient urinary incontinence in older adults. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Benchmarking'

Definition: Method of measuring performance against established standards of best practice.

Descriptor UI: D019985

Alternative terms: Benchmarking; Best Practice Analysis; Analysis, Best Practice; Benchmarking, Health Care; Health Care Benchmarking; Benchmarking, Healthcare; Healthcare Benchmarking;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N04.452.500.150; N04.761.685.150; N04.761.700.150; N05.700.150; N05.715.360.650.150;

History Note: 98