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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828897203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50950-3

9786610509508

1-84544-786-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Collana

Benchmarking: an international journal ; ; v.12, no. 5, pt. 1

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; Benchmarking in UK health: a gap between policy and practice?; Benchmarking health systems: trends, conceptual issues and future perspectives; Benchmarking in laboratory medicine: are we measuring the right outcomes?; Essence of Care benchmarking: putting it into practice; Performance assessment and benchmarking in the public sector

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in Part I of this ebook 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).