Illness	Number of cases
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	606
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	566
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.5)	195
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.3)	60
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.04)	42
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of hip (M16.7)	26
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.3)	22
Osteonecrosis (M87.05)	16
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.05)	15
Pyogenic arthritis (M00.05)	9

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	745
Operation using a surgical robot (5-987.1)	731
Operation on the kneecap (patella) or its ligaments (5-804.5)	681
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	648
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	547
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	280
Surgical transplantation or transposition of bone tissue (5-784.0d)	221
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.02)	142
(9-984.7)	110
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)	73

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2390 , 2300

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

Diabetes mellitus Typ 1

Angebot des Westdeutschen Diabetes- und Gesundheitszentrums

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
58	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*
44	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
41	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)	Famulaturen und das Praktische Jahr können bei uns absolviert werden.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Teilnahme an Studien im Rahmen des DarmkrebZentrums
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Medical School academia chirurgica GmbH
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die Einrichtungen des VKKD gehören zu den katholischen Krankenhausträgern aus Düsseldorf, Neuss und Ratingen, die in 2005 eine gemeinsame Krankenpflegeschule gegründet haben. Die St. Elisabeth-Akademie hat zum 01.06.2005 als eigenständige gGmbH ihren Betrieb aufgenommen.