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At Fresenius Helios, our commitment is to provide the highest medical quality and care. We aim to offer advanced and proven best-in-class diagnosis and treatment methods for the benefit of our patients. We continuously invest in high-quality, state-of-the-art medicine, and aim to measure and improve the quality of medical care.
Our target ist that our quality indicators should be better than the German average. With a mortality rate of SMR < 1, this was accomplished, among others, for major illnesses shown below.
| HELIOS QUALITY INDICATORS |
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Indications/ standardized mortality rate (SMR)* |
2008 SMR |
2007 SMR |
| Acute myocardial infarction | 0.73 | 0.79 |
| Heart failure | 0.73 | 0.85 |
| Stroke | 0.83 | 1.01 |
| Acute cerebral infarction | 0.81 | 0.99 |
| Pneumonia | 0.71 | 0.85 |
| * | SMR of 1 corresponds to the German average. SMR < 1 means that the mortality rate is below the German average, e.g. by 29% for pneumonia. |
| More information is available at: www.helios-kliniken.de/Medizinische Qualität/Transparenz/Medizinische Jahresberichte (in German only). | |
