Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	300
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	228
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	121
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	94
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	89
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI of 40 to below 50. (E66.06)	74
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	61
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.0)	57
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	52
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	42

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	418
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	349
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	316
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	299
X-rays of the stomach with contrast medium (3-138)	252
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (5-063.0)	196
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.21)	190
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	184
Surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland (5-061.0)	143
Examination of the anus and rectum by endoscopy (1-653)	137

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ01

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

Number	Group
84	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*
66	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
65	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)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildung in Kooperation mit dem Kirchlichen Gesundheitszentrum für Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB19	Nursing professionals