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Page 19 of 20 Next Page Question 19 (5 points) Saved Which of the following best define Benchmarking? a) Allows risk managers or healthcare organizations to look outside their own setting to identify best performers in the industry, When processes are to be evaluated, healthcare organizations may wish to look outside the healthcare industry to identify other service providers who have excelled at the same or similar function U b) Collect only data elements from within their own organization. The data can be analyzed after the first data collection to identify best performers at the unit or department levels. O C) Process of collecting and analyzing data to identify trends in performance and, when compared with other collectors of the same data, identifying best performers and determining if interventions that were introduced to address identified problems yielded the desired results. Od) All of the ghove e) None of the above Next Page Page 19 of 20

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a)Allows risk managers or healthcare organizations to look outside their own setting to identify best performers in the industry.When processes are to be evaluated,healthcare organizations may wish to look outside the health care industry to identify other service providers who have excelled at the same or similar function. b)Collect only data elements from within their own organization.the data can be analysed after the first data collection to identify best performers at the unit or department levels. c)Process of collecting and analyzing data to identify trends in performance and when compared with other collectors of same data,identifying best performers and determinin if interventions that were introduced to address identifed problems yielded the desired results.