Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	213
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	90
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	61
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	53
Abscess of anal and rectal regions - Anal abscess (K61.0)	42
Cutaneous abscess furuncle and carbuncle (L02.4)	41
Cutaneous abscess furuncle and carbuncle (L02.2)	40
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	36
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K43.0)	35
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	35

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	204
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	185
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	148
Revision operations (5-983)	121
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	117
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	92
(9-984.7)	92
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	89
Other operations on blood vessels (5-399.5)	58
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	54

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Department key

Department key: 1500

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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 participation

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

Number	Group
88	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*
48	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
33	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	Dozenturen/Lehrbeauftragungen an folgenden Hochschulen und Universitäten: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Studierende im Praktischen Jahr sowie während der Famulatur
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Studie zum Einfluss der Synovialitis auf das Outcome bei Knie-Artrhoskopien in Kooperation mit dem Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (AGA-Förderung)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	VIKEP-Studie in Kooperation mit B.Braun unter Leitung des Universitätsklinikums Rostock
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision	Abgeschlossene und laufenden Promotionen.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)