Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	105
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	43
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	29
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine cervical region (M42.12)	26
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	25
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	18
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	15
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	11
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	11
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbosacral region (M43.17)	9

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	193
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	153
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	118
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	118
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	112
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	104
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	96
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation with measurement of the pressure in the superior vena cava (central venous pressure) (8-931.0)	83
Other operations on the spine (5-839.5)	82
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	76

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Department key

Department key: 3755

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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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
20	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*
20	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
20	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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit Gesundheitsschule Osterholz-Scharmbeck und IBS Bremen
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Bildungsakademie der Gesundheit Nord