Illness	Number of cases
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	269
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	115
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.9)	112
Syncope and collapse (R55)	105
Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection (J22)	102
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	99
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Other pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.8)	69
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol (F10.0)	62
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.10)	60
Erysipelas (A46)	57

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal or destruction of diseased tissue in the large intestine (5-452.61)	600
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.2)	528
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the lower digestive tract by endoscopy (1-444.7)	408
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.1)	232
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the lower digestive tract by endoscopy (1-444.6)	84
Six-minute walk test (as described by Guyatt) (1-715)	36
Surgical removal or destruction of diseased tissue in the large intestine (5-452.63)	25
Examination of the large intestine by endoscopy - colonoscopy (1-650.0)	21
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.e3)	21
Surgical removal or destruction of diseased tissue in the large intestine (5-452.60)	16

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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 participation

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

Number	Group
45	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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein Wesel (BZNW)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein (BZNW)
HB19	Nursing professionals	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein