Illness	Number of cases
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	51
Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.1)	40
Other malignant neoplasms of skin (C44.3)	27
Mononeuropathies of upper limb (G56.0)	27
Cellulitis (L03.01)	19
Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue not elsewhere classified - Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue (L98.7)	17
Cellulitis (L03.10)	16
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.1)	15
Polyarthrosis - Bouchards nodes with arthropathy (M15.2)	14
Synovitis and tenosynovitis (M65.14)	11

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	237
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.40)	65
Other operations on the bone, muscles or joints (5-869.1)	53
Skin grafting from the area around the wound (5-903.69)	35
Operation on the connective tissue sheaths around the muscles and tendons in the hand or fingers (5-842.71)	31
Surgical implantation of an artificial joint in the arm or shoulder (5-824.a)	30
Suturing the outer sheath of a nerve or nerve plexus immediately after injury (5-044.4)	23
(9-984.8)	23
Surgical incision into bony tissue because of sterile or infected contaminated bone disease (5-780.6c)	22
Operation on the tendons of the hand (5-840.44)	21

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Department key

Department key: 1900

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 participation

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

Number	Group
24	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*
23	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
21	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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General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Anästhesietechnische Assistenten (ATA): Die Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach (Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe) angeboten.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	60 Ausbildungsplätze in Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTA). Die Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach (Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe) angeboten.