Illness	Number of cases
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI of 40 to below 50. (E66.06)	424
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI from 50 to below 60. (E66.07)	241
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	119
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	82
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	63
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI of 60 and more. (E66.08)	58
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	48
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	34
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	32
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	26

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
(5-98c.1)	720
Rarely used surgical technique for partial removal of the stomach (5-434.51)	559
Reconstructive surgery of the abdominal wall or the peritoneum (5-546.3)	433
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	209
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)	177
Surgical connection between the stomach and small intestine bypassing the duodenum, without removing the stomach (5-445.51)	165
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	141
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	123
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	121
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	78

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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

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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
CQ01

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

Number	Group
47	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*
46	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
46	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Doctoral supervision
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	APL der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf