Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	180
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.26)	174
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.22)	57
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Pseudarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)	48
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	41
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	38
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	32
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	30
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	30
Scoliosis (M41.15)	28

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Patient education (9-500.0)	431
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	430
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	429
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	411
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	393
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	379
Other operations on the spine (5-839.5)	375
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	308
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	295
Other operations on the spine (5-839.0)	250

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

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

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

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
47	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*
43	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
40	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
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	-
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	-
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	-
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	-
Doctoral supervision	-