Raising the Bar: A Guide to Orthopedic Benchmarking

How do we define a ‘good’ outcome in health care?

This is a really tough question to answer. A lot of incredibly smart people in health care are trying to associate data to define this historically vague question.  Meaningful, benchmarked patient-reported outcome data is one of the data sets proving promising in uncovering powerful insights from the patient perspective.

Two examples of benchmarking in orthopedics:

• Comparing functional patient-reported outcome data: Surgeons can see how they compare to their colleagues, and better yet use the data to find ways to improve outcomes for everyone in the organization.

• Comparing patient experience PROMs: Organizations can learn about wait times, whether the pre-op class was helpful, and how that varies by provider, location, and nationally.
  

As innovators in the PROM collection and benchmarking space, CODE Technology has compiled everything you want to know about benchmarking in orthopedics in our guide, Raising the Bar: A Guide to Benchmarking Basics.