Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	198
Heart failure (I50.01)	176
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	149
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	139
Volume depletion (E86)	110
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	110
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis (K21.0)	89
Syncope and collapse (R55)	82
Gastritis and duodenitis (K29.6)	70
Hypotension - Orthostatic hypotension (I95.1)	68

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	1.539
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	978
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	937
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	756
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	682
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	671
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)	620
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.9)	605
(9-984.7)	595
(9-984.8)	549

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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

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
38	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*
34	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
34	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Privatdozent Dr. med Hans Goost: Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Lehrbeauftragter Alterstraumatologie, Forschung

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit dem EVK Bergisch Gladbach werden in der Bildungsstätte für Pflege Rhein-Berg (www.pflege-rhein-berg.de) pro Jahr 40 Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegerinnen und -pfleger ausgebildet. Das Krankenhaus Wermelskirchen bietet dabei 15 Ausbildungsplätze pro Jahr an.