Illness	Number of cases
Glaucoma (H40.1)	331
Retinal detachments and breaks (H33.0)	233
Senile cataract (H25.8)	166
Senile cataract (H25.1)	122
Glaucoma (H40.5)	106
Other malignant neoplasms of skin (C44.1)	63
Keratitis (H16.0)	61
Other affections of the retina - Degeneration of the macula and posterior pole - Other degeneration of the macula and posterior pole (H35.38)	61
Other congenital malformations of eye - Congenital glaucoma (Q15.0)	58
Other cataract - Other specified cataract (H26.8)	49

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.750
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.0)	1.066
Revision operations (5-983)	736
Surgical removal of the lens of the eye without the lens capsule (5-144.5a)	469
Other operations to fix the retina after detachment (5-154.4)	294
Measurement of the intraocular pressure (1-220.0)	246
Surgical removal of the vitreous of the eye with another access, or other operations on the vitreous (5-159.4)	158
(9-984.7)	156
Other operations to fix the retina after detachment (5-154.2)	153
(5-158.5)	126

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2700

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
CQ05

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

Number	Group
23	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*
19	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
19	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)