Jana Bilger, Mark Pletscher, Tobias Müller
OBJECTIVE: To measure hospital quality based on routine data available in many health care systems including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Switzerland. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING: We use the Swiss Medical Statistics of Hospitals, an administrative hospital dataset of all inpatient stays in acute care hospitals in Switzerland for the years 2017-2019. STUDY DESIGN: We study hospital quality based on quality indicators used by leading agencies in five countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) for two high-volume elective procedures: inguinal hernia repair and hip replacement surgery...
January 22, 2024: Health Services Research