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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study.

6 Nov 2008 BACKGROUND: How much the successful implementation of the most effective (ie, best-practice) interventions could reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality is not known. We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort ... Read more...

Benchmarking home parenteral nutrition in Scotland and New Zealand: disparities revealed.

15 Oct 2008 AIM: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) remains the treatment of choice for severe intestinal failure. These patients are few in number but consume significant resource in funding and personnel. Patients receiving HPN in Scotland and New Zealand (NZ) ... Read more...

A national snapshot of local school wellness policies.

29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: The federal mandate for local wellness policies (LWP) provides an unprecedented opportunity to improve schools' practices that support student health, which, in turn, supports academic achievement. With a full agenda and budget ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Benchmarking'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Can we eliminate inequalities in coronary disease? Absolutely. 6 Nov 2008
• Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. 6 Nov 2008
• Children are waiting for care and answers. 2 Nov 2008
• Benchmarking home parenteral nutrition in Scotland and New Zealand: disparities revealed. 15 Oct 2008
• A national snapshot of local school wellness policies. 29 Sep 2008
• Case mix as the determinant of outcomes: the devil is in the details. 29 Sep 2008
• Testing the hospital value proposition: an empirical analysis of efficiency and quality. 29 Sep 2008
• Limitations in the agency for healthcare research and quality pediatric quality indicators result in flawed call for national benchmarks. 29 Sep 2008
• Best practices: understanding nurses' perspectives. 29 Sep 2008
• Novel method for benchmarking recruitment of African American cancer patients to clinical therapeutic trials. 20 Sep 2008
• Primary care. Open all hours. 9 Sep 2008
• Lymph node evaluation as a colon cancer quality measure: a national hospital report card. 7 Sep 2008
• The Good Samaritan Nursing Center: a Commonwealth Collaborative. 30 Aug 2008
• What pain assessment guidelines tell us and what they may miss. 30 Aug 2008
• Supporting family caregivers. 30 Aug 2008
• Helping those who help others: the Modified Caregiver Strain Index. 30 Aug 2008
• Assessment of repeated microarray experiments using mixed tissue RNA reference samples. 30 Aug 2008
• [To improve the daily care of Alzheimer patients in the general hospital] 30 Aug 2008
• Advancing evidence-based practice: a program series. 30 Aug 2008
• Clinical faculty development: using simulation to demonstrate and practice clinical teaching. 30 Aug 2008

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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