Illness	Number of cases
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	181
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	135
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of oral cavity and digestive organs (D37.0)	132
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	118
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	117
Eustachian salpingitis and obstruction (H68.1)	115
Other hearing loss (H91.2)	110
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	110
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	107
Acute tonsillitis (J03.9)	93

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.y)	1.098
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	609
(1-611.00)	537
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	502
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	375
Computed tomography of the neck with contrast medium (3-221)	320
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	303
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	202
Surgical removal of the (enlarged) adenoids (without removal of the tonsils) (5-285.0)	178
Treatment of a nose bleed by packing with absorbent material (tamponade) (8-500)	170

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

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

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ05

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

Number	Group
42	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*
26	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)