Benchmarking for best practice in critical care medicine: can it realistically be done?
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.
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Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. peter.angood@yale.edu
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Hardy
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Merrel
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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