Illness	Number of cases
Volume depletion (E86)	88
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	59
Alcoholic liver disease (K70.3)	46
Other diseases of oesophagus - Esophageal obstruction (K22.2)	45
Viral pneumonia not elsewhere classified (J12.8)	42
Acute upper respiratory infections of multiple and unspecified sites - Acute upper respiratory infection unspecified (J06.9)	40
Gastritis and duodenitis (K29.6)	34
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.0)	33
Erysipelas (A46)	30
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis (K21.0)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	1.149
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	511
Examination of the anus and rectum by endoscopy (1-653)	355
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	293
(9-984.7)	238
(9-984.8)	212
Ultrasound of the tissue behind the abdominal cavity with access through the oesophagus (3-05a)	195
Ultrasound of the stomach with access through the oesophagus (3-053)	192
Ultrasound of the oesophagus with access through the mouth (3-051)	190
Ultrasound of the biliary tract with access through the oesophagus (3-055.0)	189

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

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
CQ25
CQ27

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

Number	Group
73	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*
42	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
42	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Parktische Anteile in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln