Illness	Number of cases
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	204
Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.80)	194
Respiratory failure not elsewhere classified - Chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia (J96.11)	106
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Lobar pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.1)	91
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.10)	76
Bronchiectasis (J47)	71
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.00)	70
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of middle ear and respiratory and intrathoracic organs - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of trachea bronchus and lung (D38.1)	55
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Bronchopneumonia unspecified organism (J18.0)	47
Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.81)	43

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	1.092
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	568
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.01)	483
Six-minute walk test (as described by Guyatt) (1-715)	320
Investigation of the of the brain, heart, and muscle activity, and respiration during sleep (1-790)	315
(9-984.8)	311
Installation and adjustment of a mechanical ventilator for home use (8-716.10)	286
(9-984.7)	271
Examination of the bronchi by taking a sample of fluid or tissue with a needle (1-843)	215
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)	214

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0800

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
CQ27

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

Number	Group
81	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*
51	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
51	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

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