The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMSS) has proposed using readmission rates as a benchmark for improving care, including targeting them as nonreimbursable events.
Policy makers and social administrators of the ineffective provinces across Canada may find benefit in selecting one of the effective provinces as a benchmark for improving their own performance based on similar size and structure of population, size of the budget for social programs, and traditions with administering particular types of social programs.
The ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) included "Chemotherapy administered within the last two weeks of life (lower score-better)" as a benchmark for improving clinical practice [ 3].
Despite these caveats, the present data can provide a useful benchmark for improving catheter-based techniques of coronary artery occlusion in rabbits and facilitate a broader use of this model for testing drugs or interventions designed to mitigate the consequences of ischemically induced LV dysfunction.
The reported findings have implications for both clinical and research studies based on dMRI FOD measures, and provide an important biological benchmark for improved FOD reconstruction and fiber tracking methods.
The paper provides a framework for applying ISO 14001 to MPAs and discusses the results of a practical case study in northern Chile wherein ISO 14001 was used as a benchmark for evaluating and improving the proposed management plan for a Chilean marine reserve.
Based on the findings of this study, these metrics, calibrated to the population catchment area (per 100 000 people) since the uneven geographic distribution of workforce and infrastructure will not provide an accurate representation of the country, can be proposed as benchmarks for improving surgical care capacity globally.
In it, OMB Director Peter Orszag outlines four clear benchmarks for improving the federal hiring process, requiring agencies to meet them in the next six months and demonstrate progress in their annual budget proposals.
Within the limitations of self-reported data, these results provide a benchmark for future interventions to improve QOL in patients with MDS.
The events, which help fund GLAAD's storytelling and media advocacy work, not only celebrate and recognize the best of the best in LGBT-inclusive journalism, film, music, television, and more; they also serve as a benchmark for the media industry, helping to improve representation and inspire more thoughtful depictions of the LGBT community throughout the year.
I am not advocating the replacement of national systems by the ERC, but the use of the ERC to provide a new source of appropriate competition, to set a benchmark for national research endeavors, and thus to improve quality at all levels in the process of knowledge generation.
