Your Institution Has Identified a Recent Rise in Postsurgical Infection

Multiple Choice

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 similar size and patient demographics.Such a determination is known as:

A) Quality assurance.
B) Sentinel data.
C) Benchmarking.
D) Statistical analysis.