Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	289
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	228
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic multinodular goiter (E04.2)	168
Internal derangement of knee (M23.22)	98
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	93
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.53)	61
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	54
Other nontoxic goitre - Nontoxic single thyroid nodule (E04.1)	37
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	33
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	330
Other operations on the thyroid gland or parathyroid glands (5-069.40)	255
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	240
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	201
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	182
(9-984.7)	176
Surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland (5-061.0)	146
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	117
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.eh)	101
(9-984.8)	87

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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 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*
24	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
24	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)