Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	301
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	184
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	64
Other disorders of central nervous system (G96.1)	41
Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes - Meningitis unspecified (G03.9)	37
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	34
Benign neoplasm of meninges - Benign neoplasm of cerebral meninges (D32.0)	32
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	31
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	30
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	27

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	868
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	427
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	348
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	264
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	224
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	143
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head with contrast medium (3-820)	135
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord with contrast medium (3-823)	130
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	126
Genetic testing for changes (mutations) in cancer (1-992.0)	125

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1700

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

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
49	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*
30	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
17	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)