Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	72
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	66
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	58
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	48
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	40
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	39
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	37
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	28
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	27
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	22

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	188
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	137
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	116
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	92
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	64
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	63
Treatment on the intensive care unit (basic procedures) (8-980.0)	60
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	57
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	56
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	53

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

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
107	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*
78	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
74	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	Herr Prof. Dr. Woitalla ist Dozent an der Ruhruniversität Bochum;
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen des PURE Projektes (Klinik für Neurologie)
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Mulitzentrische Studien: Siehe obenStuDoQ (Studien, Dokumentation- und Qualitätszentrum: Erfassung der Behandlungsdaten zur Dokumentation chirurgischer Qualität im externen Dokumentationssystem der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie e.V.
Doctoral supervision	Doktorandenbetreuung erfolgt durch Herrn Prof. Dr. Woitalla

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)