Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for heart arrhythmia are available for 108 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 19'291 patients in total. On average, this results in 179 patients with heart arrhythmia per hospital. 22 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The Inselspital Bern (part of Insel group) scored the highest case number (1'853 patients) in heart arrhythmia.
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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.
Because of cardiac arrhythmias, I had a pacemaker implanted on November 2nd. A short “thing” of just under an hour. Thanks to the partial anesthesia, I was able to follow the interesting operation. Excellent work was done by PD Dr. Winnik and his team (also before the operation).
About the surgery:
Removal of the event recorder, pacemaker implant. Everything went great, the extreme tiredness is now gone and I'm recovering quickly. I only feel a kind of muscle soreness in my left arm. Since there will be no more fainting spells, I will move much more confidently. (surgeon: Dr. Stephan Winnik)
transl. from german, inpatient treatment in Nov.2023, date of rating: 05.11.2023
The data on this page was last updated on August 10, 2024.