Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Better information leads to better decisions. It stands to reason that evidence-based guidelines help providers formulate smarter, more effective treatment plans that return individuals to health ...

Health-related quality-of-life data are often collected during routine clinical care. We present a method to create nationally representative benchmarks for clinical subspecialties. Objectives: Health ...

CMS calculates quarterly benchmarks of care, based on hospital data submitted to its clinical data warehouses. Here is a list of benchmarks on 38 measures under the federal Hospital Outpatient Quality ...

Benchmarking is a way of evaluating performance metrics in a given organization by comparing them to similar performances in one or more (usually external) sources – these may be competing ...

Jeff Jacobsmeyer, product specialist with Case Construction, has viewed quality benchmarking from every point of the Equipment Triangle. He once worked at a Case dealership, owned his own business ...

Accreditation surveyors for ambulatory surgery centers are now paying more attention to benchmarking and quality improvement projects. They want to see projects tackling vital issues for the center ...

Today, new market realities are forcing healthcare organizations to evolve with the trends. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the intelligence behind effective decision-making during a performance ...

Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer, once observed that cave dwellers froze to death on beds of coal—lying on the very resource that could have saved their lives. But they had no way to ...