Illness	Number of cases
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	110
Synovitis and tenosynovitis (M65.14)	108
Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.1)	37
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	29
Cellulitis (L03.10)	27
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.74)	26
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.1)	24
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.75)	20
Fracture at wrist and hand level (S62.63)	20
Injury of nerves at wrist and hand level (S64.4)	16

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	579
Extensive surgical removal of diseased tissue from the skin or subcutaneous tissues (5-895.29)	143
Surgical reduction of a comminuted fracture in the joint region of a long bone and fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-794.k6)	140
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a1)	119
Operation on the tendons of the hand (5-840.44)	65
Other operations on the hand (5-849.4)	49
Surgical incision into bony tissue because of sterile or infected contaminated bone disease (5-780.6c)	48
Suturing the outer sheath of a nerve or nerve plexus immediately after injury (5-044.4)	47
Extensive surgical removal of diseased tissue from the skin or subcutaneous tissues (5-895.0f)	47
Extensive surgical removal of diseased tissue from the skin or subcutaneous tissues (5-895.0g)	38

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1591

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
CQ01

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

Number	Group
63	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
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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Nur im Rahmen der praktischen Einsätze.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)