Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue not elsewhere classified - Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue (L98.7)	90
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	81
Synovitis and tenosynovitis (M65.14)	64
Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.1)	62
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	54
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.1)	44
Fracture of forearm (S52.59)	39
Disorders of continuity of bone (M84.14)	35
Fracture at wrist and hand level (S62.62)	30
Fracture at wrist and hand level (S62.0)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	251
Revision operations (5-983)	190
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	154
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.40)	135
Computed tomography (CT) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-205)	128
(5-896.19)	96
(5-86a.00)	91
Surgical reduction of a comminuted fracture in the joint region of a long bone and fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-794.k6)	83
Other treatment by irrigation or lavage (8-179.x)	61
Surgical fixation of the bone fragments, e.g. in fractures, using devices such as screws or plates (5-786.1)	57

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1900

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 participation

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

Number	Group
110	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*
97	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
85	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals