Illness	Number of cases
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	131
Haemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis - Third degree hemorrhoids (K64.2)	69
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	68
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	48
Fissure and fistula of anal and rectal regions - Anal fistula (K60.3)	39
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	38
Malignant neoplasm of thyroid gland (C73)	20
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic single thyroid nodule (E04.1)	20
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	20
Pilonidal cyst (L05.0)	15

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of lymph nodes, spleen or thymus gland through the skin, guided by imaging procedures such as ultrasound (1-426.3)	359
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	179
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	124
Surgical incision into or removal of tissue from the anus (5-490.1)	99
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (5-063.0)	81
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	78
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	65
Surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland (5-061.0)	64
(8-831.00)	38
Surgical treatment of abnormal passages in the region of the anus (anal fistula) (5-491.11)	34

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Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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
38	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*
32	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
32	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)