Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:

Lung cancer, patient number

Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for lung cancer are available for 128 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 7'684 patients in total. On average, this results in 60 patients with lung cancer per hospital. 31 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Kantonsspital St. Gallen (site: St. Gallen) scored the highest case number (471 patients) in lung cancer.

The best hospitals with regard to lung cancer, patient number

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471 pat./year
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449 pat./year
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440 pat./year
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419 pat./year
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406 pat./year
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289 pat./year
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274 pat./year
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271 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
260 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
177 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
176 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
172 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
168 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
147 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  5.0
146 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
134 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
126 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
124 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
108 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
104 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
101 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
100 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
96 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.9
83 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
71 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
71 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
70 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
68 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
64 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
63 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
62 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
61 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
60 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.6
57 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.6
55 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.6
51 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.5
49 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
47 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
47 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
47 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
46 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.3
45 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.3
44 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.2
42 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.2
39 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.2
39 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.0
38 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.0
37 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.9
36 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.8
35 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.7
34 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.7
34 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.7
34 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.6
33 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.6
33 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.5
32 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.4
30 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.4
29 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.3
27 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
26 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
26 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
26 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.0
25 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.0
25 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.8
24 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.8
24 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
23 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
23 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
23 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
22 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.3
21 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.3
21 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.3
21 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.1
19 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.1
19 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.1
19 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.9
18 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.7
17 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.7
17 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.7
17 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.5
16 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.5
16 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.5
16 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.3
14 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.3
14 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.1
13 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.1
13 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.1
13 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.9
12 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.9
12 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.9
12 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.9
12 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.8
11 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.8
11 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.8
11 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.7
10 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.7
10 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
9 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
7 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
7 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
7 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
7 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
6 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
6 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
5 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
4 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
4 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
4 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
4 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
3 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
3 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
3 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
3 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
3 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
2 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
2 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year

Profile of the key figure lung cancer, patient number

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.

There are patient-ratings about this topic

Ratings from patients about this topic:

 verified rating about the Kantonsspital Aarau
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The KSA saved my life. -2018 Lung cancer stage 4 with metastases in the adrenal glands. Immunotherapy, chemo. Removal of a lobe of the lung and the adrenal glands. Be cancer free for 5 years. In other clinics they would have given up on me and not operated on me anymore. The nursing staff is also great. 

About the surgery:
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- Lobectomy of a lung lobe by PD Dr. med. Franco Gambazzi. After 5 days I was home. Nice scar. 1.5 months later I was back in the office. -Minimal invasive removal of the adrenal glands by PD Dr. med. Christian Andreas Nebiker. After 2 weeks I was back in the office. (surgeon: Dr. Franco Gambazzi)
transl. from german, date of rating: 23.09.2023

 unverified rating about the Spital Bülach
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My wife went to emergency with acute shortness of breath at 10 o'clock in the evening, after 2 hours of first superficial examination (no x-rays) sent home the next morning at 4 o'clock with Dafalgan, 3 days later emergency at the USZ, found lung cancer with water in the lung and heart  
transl. from german, date of rating: 17.09.2023


The data on this page was last updated on October 29, 2022.