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St. Josef-Krankenhaus Viernheim

Innere Medizin

Information and services of the department

Number of cases

Number of inpatient cases: 1.255

Staffing

Doctors m/f (including affiliated doctors): 3,00

Nursing staff: 21,38

Specialist expertise and further training

Medical expertiseSpecialist training and additional training
Nursing expertiseFurther education / academic degrees and additional qualifications

Medical service offering with case numbers

Top 10 illnesses

Illness	Number of cases
Volume depletion (E86)	78
Heart failure (I50.01)	74
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	63
Other and unspecified infectious diseases (B99)	60
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	52
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	51
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.9)	48
Syncope and collapse (R55)	41
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.19)	35
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.0)	32

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
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)	262
(9-984.7)	200
(9-984.8)	197
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	130
(9-984.9)	101
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	81
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	81
(9-984.b)	76
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	33
Use of a face, nasal, or laryngeal mask for mechanical ventilation (8-706)	33

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

Type of specialist department

Inpatient department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	1
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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
2	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*
2	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
2	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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