title: Benchmarking: a case report.
abstract: In mid 1993, administrators and physicians at Bristol Medical Center teams up with HCIA to perform clinical pathway analysis on five diagnosis related groups. The major goal of this project was to establish a partnership between the hospital administration and the medical staff to meet or beat existing benchmarks.
authors.affiliation: HCIA, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nyholm
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013714:Tennessee