Illness	Number of cases
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	133
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	99
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	94
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI from 40 to below 50 (E66.86)	51
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	47
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	39
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis and gangrene without perforation (K35.31)	33
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	30
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI from 50 to below 60 (E66.87)	24
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	24

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	428
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	291
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	171
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	149
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (5-063.0)	120
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	118
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	108
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	96
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)	89
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	87

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

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

Number	Group
65	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*
9	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
8	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)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals