Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	155
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	36
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	34
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	33
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	29
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene recurrent (K40.91)	24
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	23
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	19
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	19
Cutaneous abscess furuncle and carbuncle (L02.2)	19

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	176
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	161
Revision operations (5-983)	160
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a1)	91
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	90
Quantitative analysis of specific values such as organ function or blood flow rate (3-993)	56
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	51
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.42)	50
Computer assisted visualisation of body structures in 3 dimensions - virtual 3D reconstruction technique (3-994)	48
(9-984.8)	48

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In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

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

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
18	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
15	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)