Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	149
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	59
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	59
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	52
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.3)	48
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	43
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	42
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	38
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	37
Diaphragmatic hernia - Diaphragmatic hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K44.9)	34

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
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)	216
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	175
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.13)	124
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	119
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.12)	102
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	97
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	96
(9-984.8)	87
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	77
Other treatment by irrigation or lavage (8-179.x)	70

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
82	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*
66	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
66	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
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Oliver Al-Taie Lehrbeauftragung an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
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
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Pflege
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation
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)
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.