Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	162
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	69
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	61
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	48
Haemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis - Third degree hemorrhoids (K64.2)	40
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	37
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	36
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	34
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	30
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene recurrent (K40.91)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	226
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	212
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	196
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	177
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	172
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	162
Examination of the abdominal cavity or its organs by endoscopy (1-694)	135
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	113
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	108
(9-984.7)	96

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Department key: 3700

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Quality

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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
38	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*
34	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
34	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	Privatdozent Dr. med Hans Goost: Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Lehrbeauftragter Alterstraumatologie, Forschung

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit dem EVK Bergisch Gladbach werden in der Bildungsstätte für Pflege Rhein-Berg (www.pflege-rhein-berg.de) pro Jahr 40 Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegerinnen und -pfleger ausgebildet. Das Krankenhaus Wermelskirchen bietet dabei 15 Ausbildungsplätze pro Jahr an.