Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	81
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	66
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	32
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	31
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	29
Localized adiposity (E65)	24
Erysipelas (A46)	19
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene recurrent (K40.91)	18
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	18
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	17

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
(8-831.00)	113
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	112
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)	110
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	103
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	84
(9-984.7)	69
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.42)	59
(9-984.8)	54
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.45)	44
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	43

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

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

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
66	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*
53	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
35	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	Unter anderem kooperierendes Krankenhaus für die Hochschule für Gesundheit in Bochum
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der HSG (Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum); Studenten der HSG für die Krankenpflegeausbildung
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)	In Kooperation mit dem Kirchlichen Gesundheitszentrum f. Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB19	Nursing professionals