Illness	Number of cases
Other diseases of oesophagus (K22.7)	112
Other diseases of oesophagus - Achalasia of cardia (K22.0)	87
Other diseases of oesophagus - Esophageal obstruction (K22.2)	83
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis (K21.0)	25
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI from 50 to below 60. (E66.07)	23
Other specified diseases of esophagus (K22.88)	18
Obesity - Obesity due to excessive calorie intake - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years of age and older body mass index BMI of 40 to below 50. (E66.06)	14
Other diseases of the stomach and duodenum - Pyloric stenosis in adults - Other and unspecified gastric outlet stenosis in adults (K31.18)	10
Dysphagia (R13.9)	10
Benign neoplasm of other and ill-defined parts of digestive system - Benign neoplasm of duodenum (D13.2)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	2.131
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	865
Anaesthesia with administration of an anaesthetic into a vein (8-900)	524
Examination of the biliary tract by X-ray examination with contrast medium during endoscopy of the duodenum (1-640)	334
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	279
Operation on the biliary tract during gastroscopy (5-513.a)	254
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the lower digestive tract by endoscopy (1-444.7)	251
Other operations on the oesophagus (5-429.7)	229
Other operations on the oesophagus (5-429.e)	225
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.1)	214

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0700

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

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

No.	Explanation
CQ03
CQ05
CQ02
CQ24
CQ01
CQ08
CQ30
CQ25
CQ26
CQ27
CQ29
CQ28
CQ31

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

Number	Group
940	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*
299	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
280	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
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)	HB01 u. HB02 insgesamt: 372 Ausbildungsplätze
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	HB01 u. HB02 insgesamt: 372 Ausbildungsplätze
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	68 Ausbildungsplätze
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	68 Ausbildungsplätze
HB16	Dietician (m/f)	35 Ausbildungsplätze
HB14	Orthoptist (m/f)	11 Ausbildungsplätze
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	54 Ausbildungsplätze
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	20 Ausbildungsplätze
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	194
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	29 Ausbildungsplätze
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	58 Pflegestudierende