Illness	Number of cases
Senile cataract (H25.2)	480
Glaucoma (H40.1)	225
Retinal detachments and breaks (H33.0)	186
Other affections of the retina - Degeneration of the macula and posterior pole - Other degeneration of the macula and posterior pole (H35.38)	77
Glaucoma (H40.5)	34
Glaucoma (H40.0)	31
Other disorders of lens (H27.1)	29
Retinal detachments and breaks (H33.4)	27
Other disorders of lens (H27.0)	22
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.30)	20

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of the intraocular pressure (1-220.0)	2.537
Surgical removal of the lens of the eye without the lens capsule (5-144.5a)	587
Other operations on the retina (5-156.9)	476
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	398
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.0)	376
Revision operations (5-983)	373
Other operations to fix the retina after detachment (5-154.2)	186
Other operations on the sclera, of the anterior chamber, of the iris, or the ciliary body of the eye (5-139.12)	144
Other operations on the retina (5-156.0)	138
Other operations on the retina (5-156.1)	137

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2700

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
CQ25
CQ31
CQ05	In Kooperation mit dem Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus
CQ01

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

Number	Group
154	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*
84	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
75	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
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)