Quality indicators for hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Bypass surgery (coronary artery bypass graft), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for bypass surgery (coronary artery bypass graft) are available for 19 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 3'415 patients in total. On average, this results in 180 patients with bypass surgery per hospital. 2 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Inselspital Bern (part of Insel group) scored the highest case number (423 patients) in bypass surgery.
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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.
My father (78) was advised to undergo a double bypass operation on his heart. He and his relatives were told that it was a routine operation. He died 2 days after the operation from septic shock/multiple organ failure. In less than 3 weeks he would have become a grandfather....
About the surgery:
Bypass surgery, father died in the hospital 2 days after the operation.
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jun.2023, date of rating: 21.06.2023
As a patient you feel very safe and in good hands here. Very good, clarifying preliminary information session that even a layman can understand.
The nursing staff was also very competent, sensitive, considerate and very friendly. On every shift, the staff knew about every patient. Kudos (surgeon: Dr. Achim Häussler)
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in May.2021, date of rating: 16.05.2022
The data on this page was last updated on August 10, 2024.
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