Illness	Number of cases
Crohn disease regional enteritis (K50.88)	63
Benign neoplasm of colon rectum anus and anal canal - Benign neoplasm of colon unspecified (D12.6)	60
Ulcerative colitis (K51.8)	47
Benign neoplasm of colon rectum anus and anal canal - Benign neoplasm of ascending colon (D12.2)	30
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulosis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.30)	29
Other diseases of intestine - Polyp of colon (K63.5)	28
Benign neoplasm of colon rectum anus and anal canal - Benign neoplasm of transverse colon (D12.3)	26
Benign neoplasm of colon rectum anus and anal canal - Benign neoplasm of cecum (D12.0)	24
Iron deficiency anaemia - Other iron deficiency anemias (D50.8)	22
Gastritis and duodenitis (K29.5)	22

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	650
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	616
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	545
Special staining of the lining (mucosa) of the oesophagus and stomach during endoscopy (1-63b)	373
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the lower digestive tract by endoscopy (1-444.7)	368
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.d3)	208
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdominal cavity with contrast medium (3-825)	202
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	199
Complex differential diagnostic sonography using Tissue Doppler Imaging [TDI] and deformation analysis of tissue [speckle tracking] (3-034)	137
Surgical removal or destruction of diseased tissue in the large intestine (5-452.61)	132

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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
CQ28

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

Number	Group
79	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
72	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision