Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	76
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	34
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	30
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	30
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	29
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	27
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	25
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	19
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis and gangrene without perforation (K35.31)	17
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	17

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical creation of a connection between the urinary bladder and skin of the abdomen for artificial urinary drainage (5-572.1)	121
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	102
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.13)	90
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	82
Other operations on blood vessels (5-399.5)	77
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	66
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	66
(9-984.7)	58
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	53
Surgical incision into or removal of tissue from the anus (5-490.1)	41

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
CQ25
CQ27

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

Number	Group
73	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*
42	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
42	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Parktische Anteile in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln