Illness	Number of cases
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI from 40 to below 50 (E66.86)	243
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI from 50 to below 60 (E66.87)	193
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease without esophagitis (K21.9)	74
Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue not elsewhere classified - Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue (L98.7)	62
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.1)	56
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis (K21.0)	49
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI of 60 and more. (E66.88)	46
Gastritis and duodenitis (K29.1)	36
Gastric ulcer - Acute gastric ulcer without hemorrhage or perforation (K25.3)	33
Lipomatosis not elsewhere classified (E88.22)	27

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the liver through a surgical incision (1-551.0)	527
(5-98c.1)	416
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.1)	310
Rarely used surgical technique for partial removal of the stomach (5-434.51)	178
Surgical connection between the stomach and small intestine bypassing the duodenum, without removing the stomach (5-445.41)	172
Surgical connection between the stomach and small intestine bypassing the duodenum, without removing the stomach (5-445.51)	138
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	84
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)	70
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	69
Other reconstructive operations on the stomach (5-448.22)	65

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

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
CQ31

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

Number	Group
77	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*
60	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
60	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Seit 2006 ist das St. Franziskus-Hospital ein etablierter Ausbildungsstandort der Universität zu Köln. Seit Beginn haben hier weit mehr als 100 Studenten ihr internistisches Tertial absolviert und wurden erfolgreich zu Ärzten ausgebildet. - Betreuung von universitären Abschlussarbeiten
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Durchführung von pflegewissenschaftlichen Forschungsvorhaben
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Oliver Al-Taie Lehrbeauftragung an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Pflege

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	und Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeassistent/in, Pflegefachassistent/innen sowie Medizinische Fachangestellte (MFA). Die Louise von Marillac-Schule ist eine Kooperationsschule der Katholischen Hochschule Köln.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation