Illness	Number of cases
Senile cataract (H25.1)	594
Glaucoma (H40.1)	162
Other cataract - Unspecified cataract (H26.9)	115
Other affections of the retina - Degeneration of the macula and posterior pole - Other degeneration of the macula and posterior pole (H35.38)	85
Other cataract - Other specified cataract (H26.8)	84
Retinal detachments and breaks (H33.0)	80
Other strabismus (H50.0)	51
Retinal vascular occlusions (H34.8)	50
Other malignant neoplasms of skin (C44.1)	34
Other disorders of optic 2nd nerve and visual pathways (H47.0)	33

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.391
Surgical removal of the lens of the eye without the lens capsule (5-144.5a)	921
Measurement of the intraocular pressure (1-220.0)	309
Special imaging procedures, for example, to examine the back of the eye (retina) (3-300.0)	302
(9-984.7)	291
(9-984.8)	233
Surgical removal of the vitreous of the eye with another access, or other operations on the vitreous (5-159.4)	158
Other operations on the retina (5-156.9)	144
X-rays of the vessels in the eye with contrast medium (3-690)	139
(5-158.5)	121

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2700

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

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

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

No.	Explanation
CQ01
CQ25
CQ03
CQ28

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

Number	Group
241	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*
234	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
216	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 I/II studies
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
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)	Beteiligung an der berufspraktischen Ausbildung
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)
HB19	Nursing professionals