title: New cardiac project is first to tackle clinical and operational issues.
abstract: Any hospital with a cardiac program has been involved in a benchmarking project that focuses on clinical outcomes. But to date, no one has looked at both clinical and operational issues on any scale. Now the University Hospital Consortium (UHC) based in Oak Brook, IL, is about to do just that.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006333:Heart Failure; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D008330:Management Audit; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012984:Software