Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	150
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	98
Other functional intestinal disorders - Other constipation (K59.09)	60
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	48
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	43
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	38
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	34
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	33
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	31
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	252
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	210
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	121
(5-98c.0)	107
(8-831.00)	91
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	89
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	87
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)	83
(9-984.7)	77
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a0)	68

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.	Explanation
CQ01	Die vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA) formulierte Qualitätsicherungs-Richtlinie regelt die Anforderungen an Krankenhäuser in Bezug auf Struktur-, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität bei der stationären Behandlung von Patienten mit chirurgisch behandlungsbedürftigem Bauchaortenaneurysma. Das Kreiskrankenhaus Mechernich erfüllt hierfür sowohl die personellen und fachlichen Anforderungen wie auch die strukturellen und organisatorischen Voraussetzungen.
CQ07
CQ31

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

Number	Group
60	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*
15	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
15	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision