Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	127
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	110
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	74
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	65
Atherosclerosis (I70.22)	52
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.4)	44
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.6)	35
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis and gangrene without perforation (K35.31)	33
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	32
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.3)	32

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	225
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	126
Examination of the abdominal cavity or its organs by endoscopy (1-694)	124
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	118
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	114
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	103
(5-98c.0)	89
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	88
(5-896.1b)	84
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	70

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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

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
69	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*
53	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
52	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Doctoral supervision