Table of contents - Special Issue: Benchmarking in health (Part I)
Guest Editors: Graham Francis, Stewart Lawrence
Benchmarking in UK health: a gap between policy and practice?
Deryl Northcott, Sue LlewellynThis paper aims to bring greater clarity to the debate on the merits (or demerits) of relative performance evaluation through a broad assessment of current UK National Health…
Benchmarking health systems: trends, conceptual issues and future perspectives
Suzanne Wait, Ellen NolteThe pupose of this paper is to present an overview of the main conceptual and methodological issues that underlie our current understanding of benchmarking initiatives in the…
Benchmarking in laboratory medicine: are we measuring the right outcomes?
Christopher P. PriceTo review the application of the principles of benchmarking to the field of laboratory medicine.
Essence of Care benchmarking: putting it into practice
Liz Matykiewicz, Dave AshtonThe purpose of this paper is to introduce Essence of Care, a benchmarking tool for health care practitioners and an integral part of the UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical…
Performance assessment and benchmarking in the public sector: An example from New Zealand
K.L.H. Wynn‐WilliamsPublic sector organisations have to respond to calls for accountability from both funders and recipients of the services, as well as report on operations within constrained…
ISSN:
1463-5771Renamed from:
Benchmarking for Quality Management & TechnologyOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran