Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	230
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	188
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	139
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	129
Acute tonsillitis (J03.9)	99
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	69
Other acquired deformities of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue - Acquired deformity of nose (M95.0)	57
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	46
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic maxillary sinusitis (J32.0)	41
Other hearing loss (H91.0)	38

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	299
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.1)	268
Measurement of hearing - audiometry (1-242)	257
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	251
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	235
Operation on several paranasal sinuses (5-224.63)	188
(1-611.00)	168
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	165
Surgical removal of the palatine tonsils (without removal of the adenoids) - tonsillectomy without adenoidectomy (5-281.0)	154
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.3)	148

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ31
CQ05	In Kooperation mit dem Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus
CQ01

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

Number	Group
154	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*
84	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
75	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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)