Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	278
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	239
Cervical disc disorders (M50.2)	229
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	224
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	115
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	111
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	111
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	78
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	70
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	64

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	718
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	437
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	436
Surgical removal of bone tissue for purposes of transplantation (5-783.0x)	386
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	382
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	374
(9-984.7)	357
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	333
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	318
(9-984.8)	318

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
109	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*
61	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
61	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 colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)