Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are required to gather outcome data in regard to the treatment of specific diseases and report it to public agencies. When the data is used to compare outcomes across similar facilities, this is
a. benchmarking.
b. quality improvement.
c. qualitative data.
d. sensitive indicators.
a. benchmarking
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