While significant progress has been made in improving cancer survival rates—as evidenced by a drop in cancer deaths in the U.S.—the number of new cases continues to increase. Experts say far too many ...

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 ...

Seven gastroenterologists from across the United States share how they are using benchmarking to improve colonoscopy quality. Ask a Gastroenterologist is a weekly series of questions posed to ...

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 ...

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 ...