Illness	Number of cases
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	265
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	235
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic single thyroid nodule (E04.1)	99
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.0)	88
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	74
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	67
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	61
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	55
Hyperparathyroidism and other disorders of parathyroid gland - Primary hyperparathyroidism (E21.0)	51
Malignant neoplasm of thyroid gland (C73)	49

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	529
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	278
Surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland (5-061.0)	274
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	230
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (5-063.0)	216
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	209
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	157
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	138
(9-984.7)	83
Rarely used surgical technique for partial removal of the stomach (5-434.51)	80

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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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
CQ01

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

Number	Group
89	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*
71	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
71	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”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildung in Kooperation mit dem Kirchlichen Gesundheitszentrum für Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	in Kooperation mit dem Gesundheitscampus der Hochschule Bochum (HSG)