Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	86
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	36
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	28
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	27
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	25
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	24
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	22
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	21
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.4)	20
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	17

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	183
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	110
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.13)	105
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	96
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	95
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	84
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	83
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)	73
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	69
Treatment by washing out (lavage) the abdominal cavity with a drain and temporary closure of the abdominal wall (8-176.2)	60

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

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
CQ28
CQ27
CQ01

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

Number	Group
138	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*
63	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
63	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

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf: Dr. Dammann, Dr. Nossek für den Studiengang Physician Assistance (CTA/MAC), Dr. Cordier
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	In den Fachbereichen der Kardiologie,Pneumologie,Innere Medizin,Gastroenterologie, Hämatologie/Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Allgemein- und Visceralchirurgie, Gefäßchirurgie, Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Thoraxchirurgie, Geriatrie, Nephrologie, Anästhesiologie, Plast.-/Ästhet. Chirurgie
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Dammann
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Witten-Herdecke: Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Dr. Gülker; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Berger; Dr. Nossek; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Grebe; Dr. Adam; Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt; UK Essen: Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt
Doctoral supervision	Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Prof. Dr. Lehnerdt; Dr. S. Grebe; Dr. Cordier
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Quantifizierung des aventilatorischen Massenflusses; SF6-LCI Messung bei COPD und Lungenfibrose; LCI-Test-Retest Reliabilität (NN); UCH: Registerstudie fotodynamische intramedulläre Stabilisierung des vorderen Beckenrings
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Apnoeischen Oxygenierung bei Panendoskopien;Mikrobiom Register Uni Köln;Mitglied Netzwerk genomische Medizin Uni Köln,wiss. Institut Witten-Herd. u UTZ Uni Ddorf,FITT-STEMI u ERCTO Register + Monitoring; RWTH Aachen iHope Studie, QUIPS u LOPSTER Uni Jena,Strahlenther. u Elektrophysiol. Uni/EVK Ddorf
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Riethmann; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Arafkas; Dr. Grebe

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)	in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Regionalen Therapiezentrum
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)