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. 2023 Jan 12;2(1):3.
doi: 10.1007/s43999-022-00016-0.

The Swiss health care atlas-relaunch in scale

Reto Jörg  1 , Jonathan Zufferey  2 , Oliver Zumbrunnen  2 , Boris Kaiser  3 , Stefan Essig  4   5 , Marcel Zwahlen  6 , Tobias Schoch  7 , Marcel Widmer  2
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The Swiss health care atlas-relaunch in scale

Reto Jörg et al. Res Health Serv Reg. .

Abstract

Inspired by the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, an early version of the Swiss Atlas of Health Care (SAHC) was released in 2017. The SAHC provides an intuitive visualization of regional variations of medical care delivery and thus allows for a broad diffusion of the contents. That is why the SAHC became widely accepted amongst health care stakeholders. In 2021, the relaunch of the SAHC was initiated to update as well as significantly expand the scope of measures depicted on the platform, also integrating indicators for outpatient care in order to better reflect the linkages between inpatient and outpatient health care provision. In the course of this relaunch, the statistical and technical aspects of the SAHC have been reviewed and updated. This paper presents the key aspects of the relaunch project and provides helpful insights for similar endeavors elsewhere.

Keywords: Atlas; Health care; Health service research; Small area analysis; Variation analysis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Example view of the early version of the Swiss Atlas of Health Care in 2017. This example shows the standardized rates for arthroscopic meniscectomy of the knee per HSA in 2015. Extracted from https://versorgungsatlas.ch/index.php/de/MENK/ (accessed 2022 September 20)
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Source of the identified potential indicators (n = 491) for the SAHC relaunch
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Identified potential indicators by category after feasibility check (n = 213)
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