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B · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Mercy Hospital compares its surgical site infection rate to General Heart Hospital, which is known as a best-in-class hospital for its surgical site infection rates.

Mercy Hospital studies General Heart Hospital's methods for reducing surgical site infection rates and uses that infor-mation to improve its own performance. This quality performance method is called: a. benchmarking.
b. evidence-based practice.
c. enterprise risk management.
d. continuous quality improvement.

Question 2

A team has formed to determine which methods have worked best and which factors influence the implementation of an evidence-based practice program. This is known as ____.

a. Authoritarian research
b. Autocratic research
c. Transformational research
d. Translational research

bitingbit · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Benchmarking is a tool to assist in quality-of-care decision making. Most recently, it has been defined as an improvement process in which an organization measures its strategies, operations, or internal process performance against that of best-in-class organizations within or outside its industry, determines how those organizations achieved their performance levels, and uses that information to improve its own performance.

Answer to Question 2

D
Translational research is the scientific investigation of methods and variables that influence the rate and extent of adoption of evidence-based practices by individuals and organizations to im-prove clinical and operational decision making in the delivery of health care services (Titler & Everett, 2001).