Regional and national evaluations of healthcare facilities are increasingly performed to provide local benchmarks for hospital and nursing home quality measures [ 1- 8].
As part of its investigation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said 133 traders at firms like Credit Suisse, Citigroup and ING tried to influence the local benchmark rate for their own financial gain over a five-year period starting in 2007.
A high-quality, clinical database was used to identify admissions with asthma to ICUs across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in order to provide national, baseline information that may be useful both for local benchmarking and for dictating future policy.
We report, for the first time, national, baseline information that will be useful for both local benchmarking and for dictating future policy.
The results of this analysis are expected to be a benchmark for local architects, researchers, and also residents in developing design optimizations, especially houses that have been built.
Lim had become a benchmark for local criminals; in 2002 Subhas Anandan described his client, wife-killer Anthony Ler, as a "cooler, more handsome version of [the] notorious Toa Payoh medium-murderer".
Because for states not on the coasts, the exercise gives local entrepreneurs and outside observers a benchmark for evaluating where a company sits on a state's spectrum of startup companies.
Other key drivers were strong strategic leadership, increased investment, and the creation of more stable and centralised commissioning structures to enhance observance of national guidelines, as well as increased availability of data for outcomes monitoring and local benchmarking.
PIPs that make these references will be appropriate and do not constitute a local target or benchmark.
The VAI rate of 11.4/1000 catheter-days can be used by individual institutions as a benchmark for comparison with their local VAI rates.
