Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	60
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	38
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	35
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	33
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	29
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	26
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K43.0)	25
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	25
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	24
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis (K21.0)	20

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	217
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)	192
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	97
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	96
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	86
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	83
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	81
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	80
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	73
(5-98c.1)	73

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3757

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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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
CQ31
CQ25

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

Number	Group
90	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*
72	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
69	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)