Sentence examples for benchmark hospital from inspiring English sources

In 1998, the UK government introduced the National Reference Costing Exercise (NRCE) to benchmark hospital costs.

Furthermore the study Usabil-IT covered most of the key performance indicators to benchmark hospital information systems published by Hübner-Bloder and Ammenwerth end of 2009 [ 45].

Rates of MSSA and MRSA infections in these 3 northern Saskatchewan communities (112 482 cases/10,000 population) far exceed MRSA rates reported in the neighboring provinces of Manitoba (≈16/10,000 population) (6 ) and Alberta (10.7/10,000 population) (7 ), as well as benchmark hospital rates provided by the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (3.43 cases/10,000 patient days) (1 ).

Importantly, the NCDB can be used to benchmark hospitals on performance measures and serve as an impetus for quality improvement initiatives at the hospital level.

To assess the development of and variation in lengths of stay in Dutch hospitals and to determine the potential reduction in hospital days if all Dutch hospitals would have an average length of stay equal to that of benchmark hospitals.

Although the NCDB is a tremendous repository of oncologic data, perhaps the most important aspect is its ability to benchmark hospitals, and feed information back to the public and to participating hospitals.

Like its counterpart, the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) in the USA, the TCDB is a large, powerful database providing multiple opportunities for clinical studies and can be used to benchmark hospitals on performance measures--an impetus for quality improvement initiatives at the hospital level [ 17].

The risk model developed in this study exhibited a good degree of predictive accuracy for benchmarking hospital mortality with variables easily accessible from administrative data.

Indeed, many groups including legislatures, accreditation agencies, and consumer organizations advocate public reporting of VAP rates with a view to benchmarking hospitals and catalyzing improvements in care.

These results suggest that our model can be used for benchmarking hospital-standardized mortality rate with fair risk adjustment among acute-care hospitals.

Condition-specific 30-day mortality is arguably more appropriate than overall hospital mortality for identifying challenges related to patient safety and quality. 1 Internationally, hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) based on the diagnoses leading to 80% of all deaths within 30 days (overall mortality), is commonly used as an overall metric for benchmarking hospitals.