title: Status check: are we managing performance or managing performance data?
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
authors.forename: Donna J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Slovensky
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000191:economics; D007449:Investments; D007857:Leadership; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States