Illness	Number of cases
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI of 40 to below 50. (E66.06)	380
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	312
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	193
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI from 50 to below 60. (E66.07)	129
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	115
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	83
Fissure and fistula of anal and rectal regions - Anal fistula (K60.3)	81
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	80
Haemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis - Third degree hemorrhoids (K64.2)	79
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.4)	78

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	662
(5-98c.1)	594
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	446
Rarely used surgical technique for partial removal of the stomach (5-434.51)	434
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	372
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	345
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	335
Computed tomography of the pelvis with contrast medium (3-226)	269
Operation using lasers (5-985.2)	211
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)	179

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500 , 1513 , 3757

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Brustkrebs

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

No.	Explanation
CQ01
CQ05
CQ25

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

Number	Group
135	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*
13	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
12	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	Herr Prof. Dr. Sven Schiermeier ist Lehrstuhlinhaber des Fachbereichs Frauenheilkunde der Universität Witten-Herdecke.
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen und Praktisches Jahr können in unserem Hause absolviert werden.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Im Bereich der gynäkologischen Onkologie sowie der Inneren Medizin und der Kardiologie werden zahlreiche Studien Phase-III/IV-Studien durchgeführt.
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Die St. Elisabeth Gruppe verfügt über eine gruppeneigene Akademie der Physio- und Ergotherapie.
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)