Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	45
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	32
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	13
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	9
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified - Pain in unspecified joint (M25.50)	7
Somatoform disorders (F45.40)	6
Disorders of trigeminal nerve - Trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)	5
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	5
Other headache syndromes (G44.2)	4
Dorsalgia unspecified (M54.90)	4

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	118
Patient education (9-500.0)	118
Extended investigation of pain, with special equipment for monitoring and the possibility of the administration of medicines, as well as uniform follow-up of therapeutic success (1-911)	61
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	57
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	52
(9-984.7)	31
Interdisciplinary management of pain with short-term treatment (8-91b)	23
(9-984.8)	23
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.22)	18
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	16

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In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3753

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

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2

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
9	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*
6	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
6	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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