Illness	Number of cases
Acute upper respiratory infections of multiple and unspecified sites - Acute upper respiratory infection unspecified (J06.9)	127
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.0)	118
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	117
Acute bronchitis - Acute bronchitis unspecified (J20.9)	87
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Bronchopneumonia unspecified organism (J18.0)	67
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.9)	59
Other functional intestinal disorders - Other constipation (K59.09)	56
Viral infection of unspecified site - Viral infection unspecified (B34.9)	52
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Lobar pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.1)	46
Syncope and collapse (R55)	44

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of the brain waves - EEG (1-207.0)	402
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)	333
Measurement of brain waves triggered by targeted stimuli (evoked potentials) (1-208.1)	205
Complex differential diagnostic sonography using Tissue Doppler Imaging [TDI] and deformation analysis of tissue [speckle tracking] (3-034)	155
Administration of medicines or salt solutions through the blood vessels in newborn babies (8-010.3)	130
Care of a new-born baby after birth (9-262.1)	106
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head without contrast medium (3-800)	93
Measurement of the brain waves - EEG (1-207.1)	49
Mechanical ventilation of newborn babies and infants (8-711.00)	49
Keeping the respiratory tract open by means of a tube through the mouth or nose (8-700.1)	48

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1000

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
CQ01	Die vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA) formulierte Qualitätsicherungs-Richtlinie regelt die Anforderungen an Krankenhäuser in Bezug auf Struktur-, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität bei der stationären Behandlung von Patienten mit chirurgisch behandlungsbedürftigem Bauchaortenaneurysma. Das Kreiskrankenhaus Mechernich erfüllt hierfür sowohl die personellen und fachlichen Anforderungen wie auch die strukturellen und organisatorischen Voraussetzungen.
CQ07
CQ31

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

Number	Group
60	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*
15	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
15	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision