Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said it has published its 2025 Outcomes Book, the eighth annual edition of its public report disclosing hospital quality and performance metrics, as providers face growing pressure to quantify outcomes and show how quality-improvement efforts translate into measurable changes.
The 2025 edition includes 284 metrics grouped into four categories: hospital priority management indicators, clinical care indicators, quality-improvement activities and adequacy assessments, the hospital said.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital’s (SNUBH) Outcomes Book series, culminating in the 2025 eighth edition, which tracks 284 care-quality indicators. (Courtesy of SNUBH)
SNUBH said it began issuing the Outcomes Book in 2018, describing the publication as an annual disclosure of disease-specific treatment results and broader care-quality indicators.
The latest report expands coverage into additional clinical areas, adding new sections on head and neck cancer, breast cancer, and central nervous system infectious and inflammatory diseases, SNUBH said.
The hospital said the expanded sections include items such as case volumes for remote-access and robotic head and neck surgery, as well as the rate of immediate reconstruction performed during breast cancer surgery, alongside outcomes for patients hospitalized for central nervous system infections.
The hospital also said it added new tracking items in dermatologic oncology, including a metric for waiting time from confirmed skin cancer diagnosis to surgery.
SNUBH framed the measure as part of efforts to improve preoperative testing and admission workflows so procedures can be scheduled closer to patients’ preferred dates.
Beyond public reporting, SNUBH positioned the Outcomes Book as a management tool used to sustain internal quality initiatives that might otherwise fade after an initial rollout.
As an example, the hospital highlighted monitoring of inpatient acute kidney injury (AKI) recovery rates, which it said improved after its nephrology department introduced an early-detection alert system in 2014. By registering AKI recovery as a standing Outcomes Book indicator, the hospital said it has been able to keep the metric under ongoing review and feedback.
“Outcomes Book is part of SNUBH’s effort to raise transparency and trust in healthcare and to build a medical environment the public can rely on,” SNUBH CEO and President Song Jung-han said in a statement, adding that the hospital plans to continue refining care delivery based on accumulated experience and results.
The 2025 Outcomes Book is available for viewing and download through the hospital’s website.
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