Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	85
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	58
Atherosclerosis - Atherosclerosis of native arteries of other extremities with ulceration (I70.25)	49
Atherosclerosis (I70.24)	38
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.3)	38
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	36
Erysipelas (A46)	34
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.74)	33
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	33
Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T82.8)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	371
Blood purification outside the body through a combination of haemofiltration and dialysis (8-855.3)	120
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	106
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	106
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	101
(9-984.7)	85
(9-984.b)	82
(9-984.8)	78
Surgical removal of a blood clot including the adjacent inner wall of an artery (5-381.70)	69
Surgical repair of a umbilical hernia (5-534.03)	65

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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.	Explanation
CQ01

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

Number	Group
46	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*
42	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
23	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	PJ nur für den Fachbereich Orthopädie/Wirbelsäulenchirurgie. Famulatur für alle Fachbereiche.
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Das Westpfalz-Klinikum bietet Plätze für die praktische Ausbildung.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB19	Nursing professionals	Löst ab 2020 den Ausbildungsberuf zum/zur Gesundheits- und Krankenpfleger/in ab.