Illness	Number of cases
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	345
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	283
Cervical disc disorders (M50.2)	218
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	218
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	100
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	99
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	71
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	71
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	71
Fracture of femur (S72.04)	66

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	716
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	463
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	455
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.96)	386
Surgical removal of bone tissue for purposes of transplantation (5-783.0x)	362
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	358
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	344
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.0)	343
(9-984.7)	319
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	305

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

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

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 participation

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

Number	Group
122	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*
64	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
64	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
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
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)