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    Benchmarking with Spine Tango: Potentials and pitfalls

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    Authors
    Röder, C.
    Staub, L.
    Dietrich, D.
    Zweig, T.
    Melloh, Markus
    Aebi, M.
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Röder, C. and Staub, L. and Dietrich, D. and Zweig, T. and Melloh, M. and Aebi, M. 2009. Benchmarking with Spine Tango: Potentials and pitfalls. European Spine Journal. 18 (SUPPL. 3): pp. S305-S311.
    Source Title
    European Spine Journal
    DOI
    10.1007/s00586-009-0943-7
    ISSN
    0940-6719
    School
    Curtin Medical School
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18526
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The newly released online statistics function of Spine Tango allows comparison of own data against the aggregated results of the data pool that all other participants generate. This comparison can be considered a very simple way of benchmarking, which means that the quality of what one organization does is compared with other similar organizations. The goal is to make changes towards better practice if benchmarking shows inferior results compared with the pool. There are, however, pitfalls in this simplified way of comparing data that can result in confounding. This means that important influential factors can make results appear better or worse than they are in reality and these factors can only be identified and neutralized in a multiple regression analysis performed by a statistical expert. Comparing input variables, confounding is less of a problem than comparing outcome variables. Therefore, the potentials and limitations of automated online comparisons need to be considered when interpreting the results of the benchmarking procedure. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.

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