Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Rectum surgery (carcinoma, cancer), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for rectum surgery (carcinoma, cancer) are available for 80 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 858 patients in total. On average, this results in 11 patients with rectum surgery per hospital. 47 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Kantonsspital St. Gallen (site: St. Gallen) scored the highest case number (56 patients) in rectum surgery.
Direct link to source not available in English - view it in German or in French (FOPH-code: E.4.11.F)
Quality report (pdf) not available in English - view it in German or in French
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.
Alltogether I've spent a few weeks in this hospital during the last 22 years. My experience is consistently positive. Information, surgery, or examinations, I was always looked after in a competent and friendly manner
About the surgery:
Already four times I was implanted a defibrillator. The OP's always went easy. I was also fully happy with the rectum-surgery. Simply SUPER!
transl. from german, date of rating: 14.09.2019
The data on this page was last updated on October 29, 2022.