Quality indicators of the Swiss acute care hospitals 2020

The quality indicators of the Swiss acute care hospitals include details of treatments provided at Swiss hospitals in 2020. Given values include the number of cases, figures for subcategories (e.g. rates of caesarean section), mortality rates for specific clinical patterns and procedures as well as selected lengths of stay and transfer rates. The indicators are intended to give the interested public an overview of activities conducted at hospitals largely financed by health insurance premiums and taxes, and to allow patients to make their choice of hospital based on facts. It is also intended to provide specialists at the hospitals concerned and outside with a basis for comparison between hospitals and inject a new aspect into discussions on quality.

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Identifier qip20@bundesamt-fur-gesundheit-bag
Title for URL of the dataset Qualitätsindikatoren der Schweizer Akutspitäler 2020
Schedule the publication of the dataset -
Issued date April 4, 2022
Modification date April 4, 2022
Conforms to -
Update interval Annual
Temporal coverage January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Publisher Information Bundesamt für Gesundheit
Contact points Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Sektion Datenmanagement und Statistik
Languages
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
URL http://www.bag.admin.ch/qiss
Relation Legal basis
Spatial -
Related datasets -
Documentation -
Keywords
Terms of use https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_by
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