Table 1.
Individual hospital characteristics of the control group 2009 to 2011.
Fig 1.
HPAT assessment checklist for Preoperative Care.
Whenever possible, ten observations or file reviews should be conducted for key procedures in process quality. Single items were assessed with 0/2 = not available/performed = 0%, 1/2 = partly available/irregularly performed = 50% or 2/2 = available/performed = 100%.
Fig 2.
HPAT assessment checklist for Postoperative Inpatient Care.
Whenever possible, ten observations or file reviews should be conducted for key procedures in process quality. Single items were assessed with 0/2 = not available/performed = 0%, 1/2 = partly available/irregularly performed = 50% or 2/2 = available/performed = 100%.
Table 2.
Structural quality in the intervention hospital 2009 to 2011.
Table 3.
Structural quality in the control group 2009 to 2011.
Table 4.
Immediate outcome indicators for Preoperative Care in the intervention hospital 2009 to 2011.
Table 5.
Immediate outcome indicators for Preoperative Care in the Control Group 2009 to 2011.
Table 6.
Immediate outcome indicators for Postoperative Inpatient Care in the intervention hospital 2009 to 2011.
Table 7.
Immediate outcome indicators for Postoperative Inpatient Care in the Control Group 2009 to 2011.
Table 8.
Surgical Case Fatality Rate for the intervention hospital and the control group before and after intervention.
Table 9.
Anaesthetic Complication Rate for the intervention hospital before and after intervention.