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Diagnosis- or intervention-specific patient numbers (case numbers) per hospital for esophagus surgery (cancer) are available for 28 hospitals in the current data year. These hospitals attended 318 patients in total. On average, this results in 11 patients with esophagus surgery per hospital. 17 hospitals had less than 10 patients. The
Best hospitals for esophagus surgery (cancer), patient number
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43 pat./year
40 pat./year
28 pat./year
28 pat./year
27 pat./year
23 pat./year
21 pat./year
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19 pat./year
16 pat./year
13 pat./year
10 pat./year
9 pat./year
7 pat./year
6 pat./year
4 pat./year
3 pat./year
3 pat./year
3 pat./year
2 pat./year
2 pat./year
2 pat./year
2 pat./year
2 pat./year
1 pat./year
1 pat./year
1 pat./year
1 pat./year
1 pat./year
Profile of the key figure esophagus surgery (cancer), patient number
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.
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