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For the sixth year running, Iasist is presenting the results of the TOP 20 Hospitals programme, an initiative which we hope will contribute to a continual improvement process for health care in our country. It is offering hospital profiles with a better balance of results for quality and resources management providing a reference pattern for other hospital centres in terms of achieving excellence in the service they give their patients.
In 2005, 141 centres participated with representation from hospitals of all sizes and complexity. Of these, 114 mostly attend National Health patients (81%) and 27 (19%) are essentially dedicated to private patients or those with private insurance cover. The first represent 52.5% of the total hospitals treating Social Security patients.
Aspects most emphasised in this edition
Methodology
An indicator was added for how the hospital's non-surgical outpatients area operates: the rate at which outpatient surgeries are resolved, rating the degree of repeat visits (first visits/successive visits ratio), adjusted for each specialism and hospital level. On the other hand, the calculation models have been updated for mortality and complications rates. It is particularly important to note that the mortality rate has been excluded for patients with neoplasic pathology.
Clinical Areas - Obstetrics Area Benchmarks
Obstetrics constitutes one of the specialisms with the greatest activity in hospitals and generates a high level of awareness in society.
Giving birth is probably the most widespread hospitalization experience among the young adult population. Over the last five years an 11% growth in admissions related to pregnancy and birth has made obstetrics a current health specialism. This is why Iasist is presenting the sixth edition of the TOP 20 Programme on Obstetrics Benchmarks.
A total of 115 hospitals were included in the assessment. During 2004, 183,257 births took place and 77.5% of these births were vaginal. Hospital centres with less than 100 births a year were excluded from the assessment process along with centres providing low quality data.
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Company associated with the programme
