Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:

Pneumonia, patient number

Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for pneumonia are available for 149 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 36'732 patients in total. On average, this results in 247 patients with pneumonia per hospital. 12 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève HUG (site principal) scored the highest case number (2'455 patients) in pneumonia.

Related key figures: Pneumonia Mortality

The best hospitals with regard to pneumonia, patient number

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2'455 pat./year
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1'746 pat./year
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1'246 pat./year
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981 pat./year
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934 pat./year
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819 pat./year
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808 pat./year
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767 pat./year
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737 pat./year
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701 pat./year
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690 pat./year
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685 pat./year
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647 pat./year
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637 pat./year
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633 pat./year
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625 pat./year
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594 pat./year
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552 pat./year
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519 pat./year
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483 pat./year
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462 pat./year
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448 pat./year
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424 pat./year
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397 pat./year
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385 pat./year
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380 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
373 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
372 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
363 pat./year
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362 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.8
361 pat./year
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352 pat./year
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351 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
330 pat./year
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328 pat./year
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327 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.7
323 pat./year
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321 pat./year
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320 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.6
318 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.6
308 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.5
302 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.5
296 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.5
296 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.5
292 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
281 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
277 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.4
269 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.3
267 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.3
251 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.3
247 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.2
243 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.2
243 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.1
236 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.1
234 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.0
233 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  4.0
224 pat./year
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224 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.9
221 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.9
221 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.8
216 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.8
208 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.7
206 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.7
193 pat./year
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187 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.6
182 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.5
180 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.5
176 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.4
174 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.3
168 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.2
163 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
159 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
159 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  3.1
145 pat./year
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143 pat./year
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140 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.9
135 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.9
134 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.8
132 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.8
129 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.7
122 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
117 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.6
117 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.5
114 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.5
113 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.4
112 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.3
110 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.3
106 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.2
104 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.2
104 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  2.1
100 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.9
91 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.8
90 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.8
89 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.7
85 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.7
85 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.6
84 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.6
84 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.5
82 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.4
80 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.4
80 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.2
79 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.2
79 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.2
79 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.1
78 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  1.0
71 pat./year
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70 pat./year
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66 pat./year
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66 pat./year
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65 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.8
64 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.8
61 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.7
58 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.7
58 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.6
55 pat./year
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52 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.6
52 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.5
51 pat./year
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46 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.4
46 pat./year
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44 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.4
40 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.4
35 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
29 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
28 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
27 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.3
26 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
23 pat./year
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19 pat./year
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18 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
17 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.2
14 pat./year
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13 pat./year
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13 pat./year
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13 pat./year
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12 pat./year
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11 pat./year
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8 pat./year
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5 pat./year
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5 pat./year
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4 pat./year
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4 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
2 pat./year
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2 pat./year
starstarstarstarstar  0.1
1 pat./year
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1 pat./year
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1 pat./year
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1 pat./year
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1 pat./year

Profile of the key figure pneumonia, 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 Ostschweizer Kinderspital, St. Gallen
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They didn't realize that my 3 year old grandson had severe pneumonia. Was sent home twice with medication. Scandalous!! 
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Sep.2023, date of rating: 14.09.2023

 verified rating about the Reha Chrischona, Bettingen
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My grandfather (86) joined the rehab after a fall. After almost three month stay he suffered from a total of 3! pneumonias. During our daily visit in the mornings there was always a draft. 
transl. from german, date of rating: 06.04.2017

 unverified rating about the Spital Olten
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Pneumonia was downplayed, although a history of pulmonary rupture was present. The patient was sent out of the emergency room after 10 minutes with the words: He should wait until it gets worse and was discharged without medication. 
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jul.2022, date of rating: 23.07.2023

 unverified rating about the Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel
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Bacterial infection in the knee from pneumonia 

About the surgery:
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3x knee flushes
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Oct.2021, date of rating: 30.12.2021


The data on this page was last updated on November 25, 2022.