Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Kidney stone, patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for kidney stone are available for 142 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 15'391 patients in total. On average, this results in 108 patients with kidney stone per hospital. 21 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Inselspital Bern (part of Insel group) scored the highest case number (595 patients) in kidney stone.
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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.
Not to recommend. Hygiene rules are not respected by doctors and personnel. My surgery was not performed professionally and I was also given the wrong advise. In another hospital, all surgeries were successfully repeated
About the surgery:
Kidney stones surgery. After 31/2 hours some stones were still present. They proposed a second surgery which I rejected and had successfully performed in another hospital.
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jul.2019, date of rating: 31.10.2019
Very good care, very friendly. Doctors give good information, after my two stays I can not remember anything negative.
Nice surroundings, well reachable by public transport.
About the surgery:
Kidney stone remove, absolutely problem-free (surgeon: Dr. Wilbert)
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Oct.2018, date of rating: 10.11.2018