title: Producing benchmarks for clinical practice.
abstract: Clinical benchmarking has huge potential for improving health care. Students exploring benchmarks for fundamental and essential aspects of care produced a number of interesting key factors and continuums of care. A significant feature of the development of the Department of Health benchmarks has been the inclusion of service users.
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary and Community Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. m.bland@uclan.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bland
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000592:standards*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom