title: Uncalculated risks. Why risk managers won't benchmark.
abstract: Risk managers are talking about the value of comparing error rates from hospital to hospital. But so far, competition and confidentiality stand in the way of wide-spread benchmarking.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Serb
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D007255:Information Services; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology