====== Performance ======

The action or process of performing a [[task]] or [[function]].

[[Academic performance]] 

see [[Operator Performance]].

see [[Psychomotor Performance]]
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see also [[Performance status]].



The [[performance]] of individual neurosurgical [[department]]s is assessed through comparison of departmental [[outcome]]s measures with national standards. One such comparison tool is the University Health System (UHC) Consortium, a [[data]] assessment [[tool]] utilized by many [[hospital]]s for both [[benchmark]]ing and [[performance]] [[improvement]]. UHC is a member-owned consortium representing 120 academic medical centers, including over 300 hospitals, and contains self-reported data that are evaluated with risk adjustment. UHC data often serve as a proxy for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) risk-adjustment data, data that are utilized by nationally recognized external rating systems
((Hammers R, Anzalone S, Sinacore J, Origitano TC. Neurosurgical mortality
rates: what variables affect mortality within a single institution and within a
national database? J Neurosurg. 2010;112(2):257-264)).