Illness	Number of cases
Malignant neoplasm of oesophagus - Malignant neoplasm of lower third of esophagus (C15.5)	495
Other diseases of biliary tract - Obstruction of bile duct (K83.1)	161
Other diseases of oesophagus - Achalasia of cardia (K22.0)	130
Benign neoplasm of colon rectum anus and anal canal - Benign neoplasm of colon unspecified (D12.6)	121
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	109
Other diseases of oesophagus - Esophageal obstruction (K22.2)	106
Volume depletion (E86)	94
Calculus of bile duct without cholangitis or cholecystitis with obstruction (K80.51)	93
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.9)	89
Viral pneumonia not elsewhere classified (J12.8)	88

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	2.519
Computed tomography of the pelvis with contrast medium (3-226)	1.280
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	868
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	791
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)	777
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	705
(9-984.7)	617
Special staining of the lining (mucosa) of the oesophagus and stomach during endoscopy (1-63b)	597
(9-984.8)	574
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	542

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100 , 3601 , 0106 , 0114 , 0104 , 0107 , 0105 , 3752 , 0108

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
CQ05
CQ01

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

Number	Group
238	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
26	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Prof. Dr. med. Horst Neuhaus (Innere Medizin), Fr. Dr. Carolin Nestle-Krämling (Gynäkologie), Fr. Prof. Dr. med Monika Gappa (Kinderklinik), Prof. Dr. Werner Hartwig (Chirurgie), Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer (Kardiologie)
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Ausbildung von Famulanten und Studenten im Praktischen Jahr der Heinrich-Heine-Universität-Düsseldorf
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Prof. Dr. med. Horst Neuhaus (Innere Medizin) , Prof. Dr. med. Christian Meyer (Kardiologie), Prof. Dr. med. Monika Gappa (Kinderklinik), Prof. Thomas Lauenstein (Radiologie)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Prof. Dr. med. Werner Hartwig (Chirurgie)
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Prof. Dr. med. Christian Meyer (Kardiologie), Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Lauenstein (Radiologie), Dr. Gregor Wolf (HNO-Klinik), Prof. Dr. med. Monika Gappa (Kinderklinik), Prof. Horst Neuhaus (Innere Medizin), PD Dr. Torsten Beyna (Innere Medizin), PD Dr. Olaf Boehm (Anästhesie)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. René Chatelain, Prof. Dr. med. Werner Hartwig, Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Lauenstein, Prof. Dr. med. Horst Neuhaus, Prof. Dr. med. Monika Gappa, PD Dr. Olaf Boehm, Prof. Dr. med. Christian Meyer
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	IWF Düsseldorf, Helmholz Institut /Klinik für Kinder-u. Jugendmedizin, Institut für Neuro- u. Sinnesphysiologie, HHU Düsseldorf, Klinik für Kardiologie, Pneumologie u. Angiologie, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Kooperation mit HNO-Klinik-Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	1 Ausbildungsplatz pro Jahr
HB19	Nursing professionals	135 Ausbildungsplätze (Generalistische Ausbildung ab 2022)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	100 Ausbildungsplätze. Zertifizierung und Rezertifizierung nach ISQ.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	75 Ausbildungsplätze
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)	40 Ausbildungsplätze
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	20 Ausbildungsplätze
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	3 Ausbildungsplätze pro Jahr