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Benchmarking: A Method for Continuous Quality Improvement in Health

2012; Longwoods Publishing; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12927/hcpol.2012.22872

ISSN

1715-6580

Autores

Amina Ettorchi-Tardy, Marie Levif, Philippe Michel,

Tópico(s)

Healthcare Quality and Management

Resumo

Benchmarking, a management approach for implementing best practices at best cost, is a recent concept in the healthcare system.The objectives of this paper are to better understand the concept and its evolution in the healthcare sector, to propose an operational definition, and to describe some French and international experiences of benchmarking in the healthcare sector.To this end, we reviewed the literature on this approach' s emergence in the industrial sector, its evolution, its fields of application and examples of how it has been used in the healthcare sector.

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