Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	134
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	111
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	88
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	87
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	67
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	60
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	57
Cholecystitis - Acute cholecystitis (K81.0)	51
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	45
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	38

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Other surgical incision into the skin or subcutaneous tissues (5-892.1b)	692
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	536
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	408
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	323
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	297
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)	248
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	240
Surgical incision into the chest wall or pleura (5-340.0)	209
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a0)	172
Examination of the rectum by endoscopy (1-654.1)	155

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

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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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
65	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*
37	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
25	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)