Quality indicators for hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Pneumonia, patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for pneumonia are available for 110 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 33'774 patients in total. On average, this results in 307 patients with pneumonia per hospital. 10 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève HUG (group) scored the highest case number (1'700 patients) in pneumonia.
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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.
Pneumonia was downplayed, although a history of pulmonary rupture was present. The patient was sent out of the emergency room after 10 minutes with the words: He should wait until it gets worse and was discharged without medication.
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jul.2022, date of rating: 23.07.2023