Illness	Number of cases
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	226
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.10)	95
Bacterial pneumonia not elsewhere classified - Pneumonia due to other specified bacteria (J15.8)	84
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.11)	76
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of middle ear and respiratory and intrathoracic organs - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of trachea bronchus and lung (D38.1)	70
Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection (J22)	67
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.00)	60
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.1)	56
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.01)	56
Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.80)	49

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	729
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	618
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	580
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	535
Patient education (9-500.0)	420
Investigation of the of the brain, heart, and muscle activity, and respiration during sleep (1-790)	369
(9-984.7)	341
Six-minute walk test (as described by Guyatt) (1-715)	300
Installation and adjustment of a mechanical ventilator for home use (8-716.10)	246
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)	222

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Chronische obstruktive Lungenerkrankung (COPD)

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
40	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*
15	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
13	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	PD Dr.med. M. Reiser: Lehrauftrag an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Diverse Teilnahmen an projektbezogener Zusammenarbeit mit Hochschulen und Universitäten. (siehe unten)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Teilnahme an Leitlinienkonferenzen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) Virushepatitis B.
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	HD-16, HD-17, HD-18 - "Deutschen Hodgkin Studiengruppe".
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Anticancer Research Cancer Genomics and Proteomics Pelviperineology

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Theoretische und praktische Ausbildung im Knappschaftskrankenhaus, praktische Ausbildung in der Paracelsus-Klinik
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theoretische und praktische Ausbildung
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung in Kooperation