Illness	Number of cases
Cellulitis (L03.10)	18
Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue not elsewhere classified - Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue (L98.7)	16
Cellulitis (L03.01)	12
Open wound of wrist and hand (S61.0)	10
Fracture at wrist and hand level (S62.32)	10
Injury of blood vessels at wrist and hand level (S65.5)	9
Complications of procedures not elsewhere classified (T81.8)	8
Certain early complications of trauma not elsewhere classified (T79.3)	7
Synovitis and tenosynovitis (M65.14)	6
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	78
Suturing the outer sheath of a nerve or nerve plexus immediately after injury (5-044.4)	27
Operation on the tendons of the hand (5-840.61)	26
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.40)	24
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a0)	19
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	17
Surgical suture of blood vessels (5-388.2x)	17
(5-896.19)	16
Operation to tighten the skin or subcutaneous tissues and remove fatty tissue, apart from the face (5-911.0b)	15
Other operations on the hand (5-849.4)	14

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1900

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ01
CQ31

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

Number	Group
169	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*
132	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
118	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
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	7 Studien
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	12 Studien
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Studienprojekte mit nationalen und internationalen Hochschulen
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	26 Studien
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)