Performance and quality indicators covered the rate of rotation of patients per bed, the number of patients per medical worker, the general death rate, the share of outpatient treatment and the share of cases of day surgery for eye cataract.
The ranking is a result of the monitoring of hospitals' performance in the first three quarters of this year and will serve as the basis for determining their budgets for next year.
In the first category, KBC Split is the best in terms of the share of outpatient cases, the share of cases of day surgery for eye cataract and the number of patients per medical worker.
In the second category, Zagreb's Sveti Duh hospital is the best in terms of the rate of rotation of patients per bed, but in terms of the share of outpatient cases, the General Hospital in Varazdin is the best, and it also has the highest percentage of cases of day surgery for eye cataract.
In the third category, the General Hospital in Pozega is the best in terms of the rate of rotation of patients per bed, while in the fourth category the General Hospital in Nasice is in the lead.
Irrespective of hospital category, the General Hospital in Pozega tops the ranking, followed by Zagreb's Sveti Duh hospital and the General Hospital in Slavonski Brod.
At the bottom of the ranking are the hospitals in Gospic, Karlovac and Knin.
The HZZO's general assessment is that the results of Croatian hospitals in terms of medical treatment are around the European average, but in terms of organisation they lag behind other European hospitals - the share of outpatient surgery is below the European average, the quality of hospital services is not even throughout the country, there is less outpatient surgery, fewer outpatient hospitals and less bed occupancy than is the EU average, while the share of nonmedical staff is too high compared to medical staff, said HZZO acting director Tatjana Prendja Trupec.