Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	404
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	164
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	122
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	109
Chronic sinusitis - Other chronic sinusitis (J32.8)	98
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids - Hypertrophy of tonsils with hypertrophy of adenoids (J35.3)	68
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	61
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Hypertrophy of nasal turbinates (J34.3)	57
Disorders of vestibular function (H81.2)	54
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	51

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Exchange or removal of the absorbent pack used to stop bleeding (tamponade) (8-506)	816
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	648
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	584
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	409
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	296
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	296
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.1)	191
Surgical removal of the palatine tonsils (without removal of the adenoids) - tonsillectomy without adenoidectomy (5-281.0)	185
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	173
Operation on the ethmoid bone or on the sphenoid sinus (5-222.0)	120

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

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