title: [Do you mean benchmarking?].
abstract: The purpose of benchmarking is to settle improvement processes by comparing the activities to quality standards. The proposed methodology is illustrated by benchmark business cases performed inside medical plants on some items like nosocomial diseases or organization of surgery facilities. Moreover, the authors have built a specific graphic tool, enhanced with balance score numbers and mappings, so that the comparison between different anesthesia-reanimation services, which are willing to start an improvement program, is easy and relevant. This ready-made application is even more accurate as far as detailed tariffs of activities are implemented.
authors.affiliation: Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France. francine.bonnet@sls.aphp.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bonnet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Solignac
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marty
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000592:standards; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis