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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Hospital performance recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and mortality for acute myocardial infarction and heart failure.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Many hospitals enrolled in the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Program achieve high levels of recommended care for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke. However, it is unclear if outcomes ... Read more...

A preliminary study of in-house Monte Carlo simulations: an integrated Monte Carlo verification system.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: To develop an infrastructure for the integrated Monte Carlo verification system (MCVS) to verify the accuracy of conventional dose calculations, which often fail to accurately predict dose distributions, mainly due to inhomogeneities in the ... Read more...

Revenue cycle management.

24 Sep 2009 With the widening gap between overhead expenses and reimbursement, management of the revenue cycle is a critical part of a successful vascular surgery practice. It is important to review the data on all the components of the revenue cycle: payer ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Benchmarking'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• NCEPOD report on acute kidney injury-must do better. 22 Oct 2009
• Hospital performance recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and mortality for acute myocardial infarction and heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
• A preliminary study of in-house Monte Carlo simulations: an integrated Monte Carlo verification system. 29 Sep 2009
• ACCF/AHA 2009 performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop Performance Measures for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease) developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; and Preventive Cardi 27 Sep 2009
• Revenue cycle management. 24 Sep 2009
• Benchmarking in surgical research. 24 Sep 2009
• Automated docking screens: a feasibility study. 22 Sep 2009
• ACCF/AHA 2009 performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association task force on performance measures (writing committee to develop performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease): developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; and Preventive Card 19 Sep 2009
• Data envelopment analysis: a method for comparing hospital pharmacy productivity. 13 Sep 2009
• Using postgraduate students' evaluations of research experience to benchmark departments and faculties: issues and challenges. 30 Aug 2009
• Obtaining blood samples from peripheral intravenous catheters: best practice? 30 Aug 2009
• Best practices for smoking cessation: implications for employer-based programs. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient. 30 Aug 2009
• The "zero risk" concept for hospital-acquired infections: a risky business! 30 Aug 2009
• Implementing an "always practice" to redefine skin care management. 30 Aug 2009
• Putting it altogether: improving performance in heart failure outcomes, part 2. 30 Aug 2009
• The development of an objective model to assess arthroscopic performance. 30 Aug 2009
• Predicting the risk of documented ventilator-associated pneumonia for benchmarking: construction and validation of a score. 30 Aug 2009
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia prevalence: to benchmark or not to benchmark. 30 Aug 2009
• An ontology-based approach to enhance querying capabilities of general practice medicine for better management of hypertension. 23 Aug 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