Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	145
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	140
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	121
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	93
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)	72
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	62
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	59
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	46
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	46
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	46

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	273
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	170
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	113
Surgical repair of a umbilical hernia (5-534.03)	96
Rarely used surgical technique for partial removal of the stomach (5-434.51)	89
Examination of the abdominal cavity or its organs by endoscopy (1-694)	67
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	65
Surgical removal of parts of the large intestine (5-455.75)	53
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (5-063.0)	52
Insertion of a small tube (cannula) or catheter into the space between the lungs and ribs for the drainage of fluid (8-144.0)	51

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

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

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

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

No.	Explanation
CQ28
CQ31

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

Number	Group
52	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*
0	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
0	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
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
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
HB19	Nursing professionals	Es besteht eine Kooperation mit der WBS Schule in Troisdorf
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Wir bieten Praktikumsplätze in Kooperation mit folgenden Schulen: Ludwig Fresenius Schulen Köln, Döpfer Schulen Köln und gomedis Physio Akademie in Bornheim Sechtem
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit Kaiserswerther-Diakonie
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Wir bieten Praktikumsplätze in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln, Malteser Hilfdienst Köln/Bonn, Stadt Wesseling und Stadt Bergheim an. Darüber hinaus Praktikumsplätze für Rettungssanitäter.