Your institution has identified a recent rise in postsurgical infection rates.As part of your QI analysis,you are interested in determining how your infection rates compare with those of institutions of equivalent size and patient demographics.This is known as:
A) quality assurance.
B) sentinel data.
C) benchmarking.
D) statistical analysis.

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Benchmarking is a widespread search to identify the best performance against which to measure practices and processes.

Your Institution Has Identified a Recent Rise in Postsurgical Infection