Illness	Number of cases
Malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)	218
Malignant neoplasm of thyroid gland (C73)	88
Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasms (Z08.7)	49
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.0)	40
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.1)	33
Malignant neoplasm of pancreas - Malignant neoplasm of endocrine pancreas (C25.4)	21
Malignant neoplasm of small intestine - Malignant neoplasm of ileum (C17.2)	16
Malignant neoplasm of small intestine - Malignant neoplasm of small intestine unspecified (C17.9)	14
Benign neoplasm of thyroid gland (D34)	14
Malignant neoplasm of pancreas - Malignant neoplasm of pancreas unspecified (C25.9)	10

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Imaging procedure of the whole body to show abnormal processes by means of radioactivity (scintigraphy) (3-70c.1x)	328
Gamma probe measurement when removing a particular lymph node in cancerous diseases, e.g. with breast cancer (3-760)	273
Treatment with radioactive substance taken up by the body (8-530.d0)	183
Imaging procedure to show the thyroid gland by means of radioactivity (scintigraphy) (3-701)	126
Investigation of uptake and release by the cells and organs with the aid or radioactive substances (3-70b.0)	123
Imaging techniques of other organs using nuclear radiation and computed tomography (SPECT/CT) (3-73x)	111
Imaging procedure to show a section of the body by means of radioactivity and computed tomography (SPECT) (3-724.0)	102
Radiotherapy of the thyroid gland with radioactive iodine (8-531.00)	100
Imaging procedure of the whole body to show abnormal processes by means of radioactivity (scintigraphy) (3-70c.00)	87
(3-754.x)	80

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3300

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

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

Beitritt am 02.12.2005, Abteilung Innere Medizin III (Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie)

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ01
CQ03	Enge Kooperation mit Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
CQ02
CQ04
CQ05
CQ08
CQ24
CQ25

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

Number	Group
801	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*
514	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
450	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
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	26 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Andreas Motzkus
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Hebamme B. Sc.: Das UKHD hat 45 Studienplätze in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Ludwigshafen: Duales Studium Hebammenwissenschaft \| Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen (hwg-lu.de)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	65 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Barbara Suppé
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegehelfer und Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegehelferin: 15 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Burkhard Götsch
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)	30 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Susanne Janknecht
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	60 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Hildegard Hack
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	75 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Stephanie Biedenstein
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	75 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Andreas Motzkus
HB14	Orthoptist (m/f)	12 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Birgit Wahl
HB19	Nursing professionals	415 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Burkhard Götsch
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Das UKHD hat 10 Studienplätze in Kooperation mit der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen: https://www.hwg-lu.de/studium/bachelor/pflege-studieren