title: Overcoming barriers to benchmarking in healthcare organizations.
abstract: Healthcare organizations can avoid many commonly encountered obstacles to benchmarking. Avoiding them requires attention to organization, content area and methodologic factors.
authors.affiliation: Catholic Health Corporation, Omaha, NE 68114, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Gift
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Kinney
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States