Stem cell transplant or transfusion (leukemia), patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for stem cell transplant or transfusion (leukemia) are available for 13 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 739 patients in total. On average, this results in 57 patients with stem cell transplant or transfusion per hospital. 2 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Universitätsspital Zurich (USZ) scored the highest case number (145 patients) in stem cell transplant or transfusion.
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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 ex-husband was transferred to the University Hospital of Zurich (leukemia). I would like to thank the nursing staff and the doctors. They tried everything with all their heart and with a lot of knowledge to cure him. Unfortunately, his organs failed, and that is nobody's fault. Thank you very much!
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