Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	76
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	56
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	48
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	39
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	26
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia with obstruction without gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.30)	26
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.3)	26
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia - Ileus unspecified (K56.7)	25
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	23
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	20

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	172
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	115
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	111
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	83
Surgical repair of a umbilical hernia (5-534.03)	58
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	50
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	48
(9-984.7)	48
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	45
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	43

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Department key: 1500

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Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

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
86	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*
86	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
80	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Duisburg-Essen
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	VITAS, TrendHip, Anexys u. a.
Doctoral supervision
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Vorlesungen, Kleingruppenunterricht, Famulaturen, PJ, Prüfung 2. Staatsexamen
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Hochschule
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Die Orthopädie (Springer), Journal of Functional Biomaterials, International Journal of Molecular Science u. a.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildungsstart in 2024