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Case numbers of the 161 Swiss hospitals with acute care vary considerably: they range from 43 to more than 48'000 patients per year (at the Inselspital in Bern and Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève HUG, Geneva). It is striking that in 2017 there are still 10 acute-care micro-hospitals in Switzerland with less than 200 in-patients per year in 2019, including three general-care hospitals with emergency departments and three specialist surgical hospitals. There are 23 small hospitals with fewer than 500 acute-care patients per year.
Best hospitals for patient number (total per hospital - somatic)
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48'556 pat./year
47'995 pat./year
43'022 pat./year
41'866 pat./year
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43 pat./year
Profile of the key figure patient number (total per hospital - somatic)
About the indicator «Total patient numbers»
Measured as number of discharges per calendar year.
Strengths:
The total number of patients is an objective and reliable indicator of the size of the hospital and therefore a good proxy for the experience a hospital has with disease patterns, diagnosis and therapy. In case your disease is rare, this is of particular importance. Additionally, a bigger hospital usually has more extensive technical equipment.
Limits:
Also in large hospitals there is no guarantee that there is a lot of experience with a particular disease. Knowledgeable stakeholders changing jobs and leaving the hospital for example can lead to a loss of such expertise. Please also be careful with the inverse conclusion: smaller hospitals can by all means be specialized in a specific therapeutic area and reach high patient numbers and expert knowledge. If available, it is therefore preferable you rely on specific patient numbers.
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