Illness	Number of cases
Cellulitis (L03.10)	205
Cellulitis (L03.01)	159
Traumatic amputation of wrist and hand (S68.1)	70
Fracture at wrist and hand level (S62.63)	66
Open wound of wrist and hand (S61.0)	51
Injury of nerves at wrist and hand level (S64.4)	48
Open wound of wrist and hand (S61.80)	44
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.3)	43
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	41
Burn and corrosion of wrist and hand (T23.21)	39

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.434
(5-896.19)	453
Revision operations (5-983)	430
(5-896.09)	349
Dressings for large areas of skin or serious skin diseases (8-191.20)	216
Suturing the outer sheath of a nerve or nerve plexus immediately after injury (5-044.4)	132
Surgical removal of the synovium in the hand (5-845.04)	129
Operation on the nails (5-898.3)	113
Surgical fixation of the bone fragments, e.g. in fractures, using devices such as screws or plates (5-786.1)	112
(5-86a.00)	98

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1900

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.	Explanation
CQ31

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

Number	Group
140	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*
114	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
105	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB19	Nursing professionals