Performance
The action or process of performing a task or function.
see Operator Performance.
see also Performance status.
The performance of individual neurosurgical departments is assessed through comparison of departmental outcomes measures with national standards. One such comparison tool is the University Health System (UHC) Consortium, a data assessment tool utilized by many hospitals for both benchmarking 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 1).