Quality indicators for hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Enteritis (colitis ulcerosa or Morbus Crohn), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for enteritis (colitis ulcerosa or Morbus Crohn) are available for 122 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 5'963 patients in total. On average, this results in 49 patients with enteritis per hospital. 36 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Inselspital Bern (part of Insel group) scored the highest case number (303 patients) in enteritis.
Direct link to source not available in English - view it in German or in French (FOPH-code: E.4.12.F)
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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.
I was taken to the Linth hospital as an emergency and was immediately given competent and comprehensive care. Doctors, nursing staff and domestic staff were extremely friendly, caring and extremely service-oriented from the moment we entered until we left. I can definitely recommend Spital Linth.
About the surgery:
Acute appendicitis, passed without any problems
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in May.2022, date of rating: 06.05.2022
My daughter came to Hirslanden with an emergency due to acute appendicitis.
Since she was unfortunately not a private patient, she was referred to the eth university hospital on the grounds that it is not financially worthwhile. Her pain was inhuman! Unbelievable ...
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jan.2021, date of rating: 31.10.2021