Benchmarking in Thoracic Surgery. Third Edition.

Introduction: Benchmarking entails continuous comparison of efficacy and quality among products and activities, with the primary objective of achieving excellence.

Objective: To analyze the results of benchmarking performed in 2013 on clinical practices undertaken in 2012 in 17 Spanish thoracic surgery units.

Methods: Study data were obtained from the basic minimum data set for hospitalization, registered in 2012.