title: Benchmarking for best practice in critical care medicine: can it realistically be done?
abstract: An individual program's viewpoint on the overall benchmarking process for critical care medicine and how this process can provide a conceptual understanding of how benchmarking can be beneficial.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. peter.angood@yale.edu
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Angood
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ivy
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Merrel
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000592:standards*; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D003237:Connecticut; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States