Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Kidney transplant, patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for kidney transplant are available for 8 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 298 patients in total. On average, this results in 37 patients with kidney transplant per hospital. 2 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The University Hospital Zurich (USZ) scored the highest case number (97 patients) in kidney transplant.
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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.
I felt very well looked after and also feel that I was in good hands for the follow-up checks.
About the surgery:
I had a kidney transplant. Everything went very professionally. I was only in the hospital for 1 week because they also try very hard to get you back on your feet quickly. All very friendly
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Aug.2021, date of rating: 19.08.2021
The data on this page was last updated on October 29, 2022.
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