Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	116
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	60
Haemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis - Third degree hemorrhoids (K64.2)	55
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	44
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	38
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	36
Fissure and fistula of anal and rectal regions - Anal fistula (K60.3)	35
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	30
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	30
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	27

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	159
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	110
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	110
Examination of the abdominal cavity or its organs by endoscopy (1-694)	105
Examination of the anus and rectum by endoscopy (1-653)	87
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.13)	86
(9-984.7)	83
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	81
Operation using lasers (5-985.2)	81
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	76

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
CQ01

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
27	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)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theorie: Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe in Mönchengladbach Praxis: Radiologische Klinik des St. Bernhard Hospitals, Nuklearmedizinische Gemeinschaftspraxis in Duisburg sowie die Gemeinschaftspraxis für Strahlentherapie in Duisburg/Moers
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)