, Volume 18, Issue 3 Supplement, pp 305-311 Date: 01 Apr 2009
Benchmarking with Spine Tango: potentials and pitfalls  Rent the
article at a discount  Rent now  * Final gross prices may vary
according to local VAT.  Get Access   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 statistica