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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817728603321

Titolo

Benchmarking in health / / guest editors Graham Francis and Stewart Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50975-9

9786610509751

1-84544-846-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (49 p.)

Collana

Benchmarking: an international journal ; ; v.12, no. 6, pt. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

FrancisGraham

LawrenceStewart

Disciplina

362.1068

Soggetti

Benchmarking (Management)

Medical care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Using routine data for benchmarking and performance measurement of public hospitals in New Zealand; New Zealand District Health Board Mental Health Service Profile; Benchmarking of hospital activity data: an international comparison; Cross-laboratory benchmarking in pathology; Note from the publisher

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in Part II of this e-book cover a range of topics and issues on benchmarking in health. The papers emphasise the growing application and significance of benchmarking and examine the possibility of its use to better understand and improve health service performance. It draws together evidence of various attempts to better understand Best Practice(s). Part II also contains 2 papers on benchmarking practices in the New Zealand health sector.