Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	66
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	46
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	38
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	35
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	33
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	27
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	22
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	21
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	18
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia - Ileus unspecified (K56.7)	18

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	204
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	147
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	88
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	82
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	77
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	71
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.00)	58
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	54
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	51
(9-984.7)	47

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
85	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
35	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
20	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)