Quality indicators for hospitals and clinics in Switzerland:
Femoral neck, fracture, patient number
Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for femoral neck, fracture are available for 151 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 5'923 patients in total. On average, this results in 39 patients with femoral neck, fracture per hospital. 34 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The CHUV Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (site: Lausanne / Bugnon) scored the highest case number (219 patients) in femoral neck, fracture.
Related key figures: Femoral Neck Fracture Mortality
Direct link to source not available in English - view it in German or in French (FOPH-code: I.3.1.M)
Quality report (pdf) not available in English - view it in German or in French
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.
In terms of organization, it was a real disaster! In addition to many small things, today was the best: my demented, frightened mother was discharged today, only one week after surgery (femoral neck fracture), without consultation, without informing her relatives, and was taken to the nursing home in a ta
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Oct.2024, date of rating: 30.10.2024
Our mother (aged 94 years) was brought to KSW 2 days ago as an emergency with a femoral neck fracture. Until now (47 hours!) she has had to wait for her surgery after countless postponements, although according to the recommendations an surgery must be carried out as soon as possible.
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Jan.2023, date of rating: 21.01.2023
The data on this page was last updated on October 29, 2022.