Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	136
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	75
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	53
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	47
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	36
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	32
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	29
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	27
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene recurrent (K40.91)	23
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	22

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	265
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	180
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	178
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	121
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	68
(5-98c.2)	61
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	60
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	59
(9-984.7)	56
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)	54

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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
48	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*
12	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
4	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
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Bereitstellung der praktischen Ausbildungsorte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rettungsdienst des Kreises Steinfurt
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Uniklinikum Münster
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)