Illness	Number of cases
Haemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis - Third degree hemorrhoids (K64.2)	51
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	43
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	43
Fissure and fistula of anal and rectal regions - Anal fistula (K60.3)	39
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	36
Spread metastasis of cancer in otherwise unspecified areas of the body (C79.5)	32
Benign lipomatous neoplasm - Benign lipomatous neoplasm of skin and subcutaneous tissue of trunk (D17.1)	29
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	24
Pilonidal cyst (L05.9)	24
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	20

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	632
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	318
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	105
Examination of the rectum by endoscopy (1-654.1)	92
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	82
Surgical incision into or removal of tissue from the anus (5-490.1)	81
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a3)	71
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	70
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)	61
Clinical examination under general anaesthetic (1-100)	58

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

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)