Health Care Benchmarking:

Terms Related to Health Care Benchmarking

• Episodes of Care

  An interval of care by a health care facility or provider for a specific medical problem or condition. It may be continuous or it may ...

• Primary Health Care

  Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a ...

• Integrated Health Care Systems

  A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for ...