Quality-indicators of hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Esophagus, complex interventions (cancer), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for esophagus, complex interventions (cancer) are available for 24 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 329 patients in total. On average, this results in 14 patients with esophagus, complex interventions per hospital. 13 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Clinic Hirslanden Zurich scored the highest case number (50 patients) in esophagus, complex interventions.
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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.
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