Illness	Number of cases
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.1)	32
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.3)	29
Pyothorax without fistula (J86.9)	22
Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs (C78.0)	20
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of middle ear and respiratory and intrathoracic organs - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of trachea bronchus and lung (D38.1)	11
Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs - Secondary malignant neoplasm of pleura (C78.2)	9
3 Pneumothorax (J93.1)	9
Fracture of ribs sternum and thoracic spine (S22.44)	9
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.8)	7
Pyothorax with fistula (J86.0)	7

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	159
Division of adhesions between the lungs and chest wall - lysis of adhesions (5-333.1)	89
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	75
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	65
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)	62
Division of adhesions between the lungs and chest wall - lysis of adhesions (5-333.0)	60
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	59
Computed tomography (CT) of the chest without contrast medium (3-202)	52
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	52
Other operations on the chest (5-349.6)	46

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1520

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
CQ28
CQ01
CQ27

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

Number	Group
136	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*
80	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
80	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Riethmann; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Grebe
Doctoral supervision	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Prof. Dr. Lehnerdt; Dr. Cordier
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Quantifizierung des aventilatorischen Massenflusses; SF6-LCI Messung bei COPD und Lungenfibrose; LCI-Test-Retest Reliabilität (NN); UCH: Registerstudie fotodynamische intramedulläre Stabilisierung des vorderen Beckenrings
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Apnoeischen Oxygenierung bei Panendoskopien;Mikrobiom Register Uni Köln;Mitglied Netzwerk genomische Med. Uni Köln,wiss. Institut UW/H. u UTZ HHU,FITT-STEMI u ERCTO Register + Monitoring; RWTH Aachen iHope Studie,NO-HARM-Studie,QUIPS u LOPSTER Uni Jena,Strahlenther. u Elektrophysiol. Uni/EVK Ddorf
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Dammann
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	In den Fachbereichen der Kardiologie, Pneumologie, Gastroenterologie, Hämatologie/Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Allgemein- und Visceralchirurgie, Gefäßchirurgie, Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Thoraxchirurgie, Geriatrie, Nephrologie, Anästhesiologie, Plast.-/Ästhet. Chirurgie
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Witten-Herdecke: Dr. Gülker; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Berger; Dr. Nossek; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Grebe; Dr. Adam; Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt; UK Essen: Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf: Dr. Dammann, Dr. Nossek für den Studiengang Physician Assistance (CTA/MAC), Dr. Cordier

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)