Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for kidney transplant are available for 7 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 391 patients in total. On average, this results in 56 patients with kidney transplant per hospital. One hospital had less than 10 patients. The Universitätsspital Zurich (USZ) scored the highest case number (109 patients) in kidney transplant.
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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 felt very well looked after and also feel that I was in good hands for the follow-up checks.
About the surgery:
I had a kidney transplant. Everything went very professionally. I was only in the hospital for 1 week because they also try very hard to get you back on your feet quickly. All very friendly
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Aug.2021, date of rating: 19.08.2021
The data on this page was last updated on November 7, 2025.
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