The current lack of benchmarks, standards, and guidelines for the NGO sector is a practical concern.
We sought to identify the frequency and compare the treatment of children with spleen injury in hospitals with and without recognized trauma expertise, with the aim of identifying a meaningful target for dissemination of benchmarks and consensus guidelines.
If developed countries with the ability to raise revenues, set meaningful benchmarks, and enforce guidelines cannot set an example, how realistic is it to expect developing, emerging, and newly industrialized countries to do the same?
It has been acknowledged that the field of ligand-binding site prediction lacks standardized and widely accepted benchmarking datasets and guidelines [30,31].
The approach is useful for obtaining structures and guidelines as well as benchmarks for online problems which may be more applicable in practical transmission scenarios.
It is difficult to answer these questions without appropriate benchmarks, guidelines and long-term surveillance to structure an evaluation of NGO performance and locate the possible inequities related to the NGO sector in general.
It is up to hospitals to develop their own QMS and choose their own QM-activities and procedures; for example using protocols and guidelines, peer review, audits, benchmarking, satisfaction surveys.
Tyler Gillard, from the Organisation for Economic Coordination and Development OECDD), pointed out that the OECD's Due Diligence Guidance and Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises were seen as benchmarks.
Many water quality research publications lack the long-term data sets needed to benchmark the performance of different land-uses against national water quality standards and guidelines.
