Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	335
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	202
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	146
Internal derangement of knee (M23.22)	119
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	104
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	73
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.53)	62
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	32
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	29
Fracture of femur (S72.11)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	366
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	291
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	231
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	223
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	195
(9-984.7)	153
(9-984.8)	116
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.eh)	115
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	109
Surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland (5-061.0)	86

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500

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 participation

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

Number	Group
25	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*
25	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
25	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Teilnahme am SOS NET

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)