Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	176
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	102
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)	96
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	80
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	60
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	54
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	50
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	50
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	40
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)	36

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	335
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	327
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)	291
(8-831.00)	211
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	151
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	119
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	113
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	104
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	98
Surgical connection between the stomach and small intestine bypassing the duodenum, without removing the stomach (5-445.51)	87

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1590

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
CQ07

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

Number	Group
48	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*
47	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
44	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Nur im Rahmen der praktischen Einsätze.
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Nur Studentinnen
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)