Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Cardiac catheterization (heart cath, PCI, balloon, stent), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for cardiac catheterization (heart cath, PCI, balloon, stent) are available for 108 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 34'347 patients in total. On average, this results in 318 patients with cardiac catheterization per hospital. 47 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Inselspital Bern (part of Insel group) scored the highest case number (3'291 patients) in cardiac catheterization.
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Department: Acute care
About the indicator «Specific patient numbers»
Number of patients with a specific diagnosis or intervention (per calendar year).
Strengths:
High patient numbers with a specific diagnosis or intervention is a indicator for good knowledge and expertise. A hospital with high specific patient numbers has a lot of experience with different techniques of diagnosis and treatment (e.g. surgeries). Additionally, high specific patient numbers suggest that employees and technical equipment are up to date.
Limits:
Unfortunately, specific patient numbers are not available for all interventions. It is not sure that results are transferable to similar interventions. Also, the relationship between patient numbers and experience/competency is not linear. Especially with very high specific patient numbers the expertise and knowledge does not increase in equal measure.
Very positively I rate my experience with the nursing staff on the ward, the hotellery, the infrastructure of the room, the food. By contrast, the operation was unpleasant (see below). I felt treated like a piece of meat. The nursing staff in the theater, however, was friendly!
About the surgery:
Cardiac catheter examination. Announced doctor was not present. No preliminary talk. Operation by "apprentice" without prior agreement. This one however appeared competent despite noticeable nervousness. Responsible doctor did NOT introduce himself! He wore no hood and nose was free despite the mask (surgeon: Dr. vermutlichFranzose Hatsichnichtvorgestellt)
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jan.2019, date of rating: 01.02.2019
Friendly, competent staff. everything was well explained to me. The only annoying thing was that they wanted to send me home at 11 pm after the procedure.
About the surgery:
Cardiac catheter examination, stent installation (surgeon: Dr. Klaus Weber)
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jul.2015, date of rating: 11.02.2018
The data on this page was last updated on October 29, 2022.