CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Using routine data for benchmarking and performance measurement of public hospitals in New Zealand; New Zealand District Health Board Mental Health Service Profile; Benchmarking of hospital activity data: an international comparison; Cross-laboratory benchmarking in pathology; Note from the publisher
Summary
The papers in Part II of this e-book cover a range of topics and issues on benchmarking in health. The papers emphasise the growing application and significance of benchmarking and examine the possibility of its use to better understand and improve health service performance. It draws together evidence of various attempts to better understand Best Practice(s). Part II also contains 2 papers on benchmarking practices in the New Zealand health sector
